This essay aims to trace the moral vision in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and its articulation, focusing on the hero, Jim's subjective and independent attitudes to his life. The hero Jim is against the customs and conventions of his society and pursues his own dream to be a hero. His dream is romantic and idealistic in that his pursuit is beyond the realities and his main concern is honour of his own sake. But Conrad shows many aspects of his actions through the narrator Marlow's continuing and developing responses to Jim. Jim's encounters with other characters give us some insights of his character. He does not admit his own limits as a human. Also, he is egocentric and does not recognize the existence of the other, making him alienated from others. The aescetic world of his own collapses when the other side of his self, Brown intrudes into his consciousness. Jim's death is not tragic but romantic because he always runs away from the realties and lives in his own dream. He is one of us. His attitudes to life is too much subjective and lacks the balance and order of Stein. His frustrated quest for personal salvation is Conrad's distressing prophecy for the modern man.
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]