![]() Marlow knows the outcome of the whole story from the outset, and from times to time he offers tantalising glimpses into what is to come. ![]() However, they are not relayed in chronological order but re-arranged to create maximum dramatic effect. The details are then relayed to a group of people Marlow is addressing – and hence to the reader. Marlow assembles the facts of the story from a number of different sources – from people he knows, and from information passed on to him from others. Lord Jim was the first of Conrad’s full length novels to feature as principal narrator Charles Marlow, the former sea captain. It’s also a very dramatic story that explores one of Conrad’s favourite themes – moral redemption via suffering and renunciation. Although the principal characters are English, the presence of Dutch, French, and German characters spreads the responsibility of ideological and cultural dominance during the highpoint of imperialism, and it does so over a geographic area which stretches from Aden in the Arabian Sea to Manila in the Philippines. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lord Jim (1900) explores the tensions of European colonialism and its role in the East Indies in the late nineteenth century. Tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links ![]()
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