1. What is Marlow’s narrative purpose in the novel? 2. What dramatic effect is gained by having an unidentified narrator tell Jim’s story until he jumps from the Patna? 3. What is the moral wrong that Jim believes he has committed? 4. Define the word “dilemma”; what is Jim’s dilemma? […]
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Joseph Conrad was born Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, the only child of a patriotic Polish couple living in the southern Polish Ukraine. Conrad’s father was esteemed as a translator of Shakespeare, as well as a poet and a man of letters in Poland, and Conrad’s mother […]
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Summary Brown ordered his men to load on board, telling them that he would give them “a chance to get even with [the Bugis] before we’re done.” He was answered by low growls. Meanwhile, Tamb’ ltam reached Dain Waris’ camp and was immediately taken to Dain Waris, who was resting […]
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Summary Brown didn’t know precisely what he had come upon in the jungle. But he sensed, intuitively, that Jim was a man with a guilty conscience and was, therefore, pitifully vulnerable. Brown, of course, never expected to confront this sort of man, He supposed that he would have to battle […]
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Summary Brown pretended to be interested in Kassim’s and Cornelius’ proposals, but, in actuality, he was waiting for Jim to return. He was intrigued by the idea of a weak man ruling Patusan. He was also more than a little interested in the reality of “a fort,” readymade and waiting […]
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Summary Marlow’s first sentence focuses on “the man called Brown.” Brown was the terror of the Polynesian islands; he was a well-known, much-feared, immoral pirate who operated off the Australian coast. He did some gun-running, and he robbed and killed and even maimed people for little or no reason. It […]
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Summary Marlow ends his story. The men drift off the verandah quietly, without queries or comments about Marlow’s incomplete story of a white man who chose to go into a dark, savage jungle in order to regain his self-worth. The question, however, remains: what was the ultimate fate of someone […]
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Summary The footsteps which Marlow heard that night were Jim’s, but Marlow was unable to talk any further with Jewel that night — or with Jim. He left, and as he walked away in the cool darkness of the night, he was awed anew at Jim’s plans for a coffee […]
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Summary The next day, Jim spent a long time with Doramin, the old nakhoda, trying to impress on him and the principal men of the Bugis community the absolute necessity for immediate and vigorous action in order to counter Sherif Ali. Meanwhile, Sherif Ali’s men strutted about, “haughtily in white […]
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Summary After Sherif Ali was routed, there was no further trouble from Rajah Allang. He immediately flung himself face down on his bamboo floor and moaned in fear for hours on end. Meanwhile, Jim conferred with Dain Waris, and they appointed new head — men for the villages; Jim had […]
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