Abstract
The present study aims at reconsidering critically Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim . Joseph Conrad is a great master of English prose who writes normally of the sea, of the Eastern islands, of the English character as seen against a background of the exotic or faced with difficulties. The power of Conrad's feelings for Jim, as well as the force of his judgment against him, are the responses of a man mightily involved on two planes, one personal and one public , with the dynamics of good and evil. The evil in Lord Jim is one thing on the surface and another beneath our grasp. It is of course the evil of men who have no sense of loyalty to anything.
Highlights
Many of Joseph Conrad's novels are based on the classic adventure story but they rarely end at that
According to Stape(1996): Conrad is a Romantic author in his search for inner truth, certainty and insight within a man, in his belief that the final count what we all rely on is what we carry within us, and in his fondness for mystery .(p.2)
The current study aims at reconsidering critically one of his work, Lord Jim, his most widely read novel
Summary
Many of Joseph Conrad's novels are based on the classic adventure story but they rarely end at that. The complex and at times paradoxical nature of relationships is explored in the novel The Secret Sharer (1912), where the main character is compelled to face his own moral opposite Ford (1991) has rightly pointed out that: Conrad wrote at an exhausting pace- stories, novels, personal reminiscences, essays- and yet, as we know from his correspondence, writing caused him great anguish and he was rarely satisfied with what he wrote His instinctive seriousness, his devotion to craft, along with a wavering faith in his own genius made Conrad's profession as a writer an almost daily struggle. His creation of an intermediate narrator- Marlow in Youth(1902), Heart of Darkness , Lord Jim and Chance(1914)-who, involved in the action, sticks to the facts in his storytelling, anticipates the narrative technique of modernist novels where the narrator totally disappears
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