Media connection #2

"But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself, and, by heavens! I tell you, it had gone mad." (Conrad 80)

This is a quote taken from the end of  Heart of Darkness. It can be related to many different works, however the two works I identified this with were, Robinson Crusoe and Cast Away. In both these films the main character is stranded alone on an island. The quote reminded me of these two movies because both of the main characters had his sanity tested by being deserted on an island without anyone around. In the novel Kurtz is around the natives, however he is still considered to be alone, and at the end Marlow concludes that he has gone mad.