Victory (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- First Published: 1915
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: The East Indies
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Gambling, Twentieth century, Islands, Good and evil, Hotels, motels, or inns, Antichrist figures, Idealism
- Locales: East Indies, Malay Archipelago
Characters Discussed
Baron Axel Heyst, a man who has deliberately attempted to stand aloof from life, an effort that has made him a pathetic man if not a tragic one. He is innately and fastidiously virtuous, but by detaching himself from the entanglements and consequences of experience he has made himself incapable of coping with evil. Consequently, when he is forced to defend Lena, the only person he has ever dared or tried to love, he fails miserably and destroys himself. He is characterized aptly by epithets: His apparent willingness to drift forever within a “magic...
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