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NostromoIn Nostromo, Joseph Conrad makes a scathing and openly political denunciation of European policies in the less-developed world. Isolating “moral issues” in Nostromo is difficult because the...
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Heart of Darkness"Full of it" implies hubris, pride, self-importance and so forth. The passage states that the company office is "the biggest thing in town", which we might interpret literally and figuratively; it...
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Joseph ConradThe deep and mysterious lagoon in the forlorn and ancient Malayan forests primarily serves as a symbol for Arsat's life of loneliness and alienation. Hope this helps
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Heart of DarknessExamine the meaning of, "We live in the flicker-may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling."Marlow's statement reveals his beliefs about the existential and political condition of human beings. This condition of human beings that "live in the flicker" helps to convey their temporal...
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Heart of DarknessThe two characters of Kurtz and Marlow are curiously interlinked in this book. Marlow is shown to have a somewhat supernatural fascination with Kurtz from the first moment he hears about him, and...
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Heart of DarknessThe frame story has little to do with the Marlow's narrative, but serves to show how different the civilized European world is compared to the brutal jungle life told by Marlow. In the frame story,...
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Joseph ConradModernism loosely coincided with a widespread movement toward commercialism, a new kind of nationalism and the end of imperialism world-wide (due to its replacement by a global capitalist system)....
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Joseph ConradThis refers to the increasing trend in this time to focus more and more on the inner lives of characters rather than on external events. This was part of a greater artistic and cultural movement...
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Joseph ConradI think you are asking whether, in the field of international literature, there is a difference between English and British. Of course, Britain is an “empire” consisting of several countries,...
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Heart of DarknessWhen the novel opens, the narrator, Marlow and his companions are taking a boat trip on the River Thames. It's a lovely sunny day in a peaceful place, but Marlow suddenly remarks that London too...
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Heart of DarknessMarlow's contemplative beginning to his story relates his impression of the Romans who may have colonized British shores many hundreds of years before. He explains that even civilized England was...
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The LagoonI think that the role of Arsat's brother is both direct and complex. On the direct side, his role is to be the source of help and strength for Arsat. It is the brother that provides counsel to...
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The LagoonAs with much by Conrad, the answer is complex. I think that a good case could be made for Arsat's brother as being the hero for the short story. Arsat's characterization is complex enough that he...
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Heart of DarknessMarlow has experienced a vast change in his character, and his contemplation of the similar effects on the Romans who might have landed on British shores spurs him to tell his story to the others...
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The LagoonPart of what makes Conrad's work so compelling is that it forces the reader to carefully examine and assess characterizations to a point where it becomes difficult to see them as entirely "one...
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The LagoonIf one were to justify Diamelen's moral degradation, I think that part of it might lie with how she left with Arsat while she was committed to another man. If this were to be continued, it would...
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Heart of DarknessWhat would be a reason that describes the importance of Heart of Darkness in its historical context?I think that part of the reason why Conrad's work is so compelling is that it provides one of the strongest metaphors for what Colonialism represented. Kurtz becomes one of these symbols that...
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Joseph ConradThematically, many texts we now identify as modernist are concerned with a with the "subjectivity of reality". Woolf, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot all dealt with ideas of a break...
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The LagoonI would consider Arsat a tragic character. On one hand, Arsat is tragic because at a critical moment, he is faced with equally desirable, but ultimately incompatible courses of action. At the...
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Joseph ConradSince the topic is wide open, I think you need to be ready for a variety of approaches to it. One particular striking feature that can be shown side to side is how Conrad deals with the notion of...
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Joseph ConradIn Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Kurtz is at the Inner Station; the only way they know that he is still alive (because he has stopped corresponding) is because he continues to be enormously...
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Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is one of the author’s most famous works of prose fiction. It was first published in 1899 and it is considered a fictional autobiography since he based it on...
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Joseph ConradI think this might be a bit late, but I had trouble with the same question. I found help in the reference below. I hope it helps.
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Joseph ConradYou could start out with Conrad's biographies from his own mouth. There is "A Personal Record" by Conrad, and many of his letters have been published in volumes. Zdzislaw Najder is a great Conrad...
