REPRESENTATIONS OF BETRAYAL AND HEROISM IN DISTINCT CULTURAL SPACES IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S NOVEL “LORD JIM”
REPRESENTATIONS OF BETRAYAL AND HEROISM IN DISTINCT CULTURAL SPACES IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S NOVEL “LORD JIM”

Summary/Abstract: The current paper is intended to analyse the course of the title character Lord Jim starting with his childhood ideals of becoming a naval officer and a hero, continuing with his act of betrayal that consists in abandoning the passengers of his ship called the Patna and ending with his honourable death as a consequence of his naivety of letting alive a group of pirates. The main character of the novel is presented going through various stages of his existence and facing numerous obstacles in his attempt of defining himself as a man and a real leader. In his process of evolution, he has to learn to accept his failures including the decommission of his officer’s certificate which practically forces him to leave England and try to integrate into an extremely different society that is run by completely other rules and principles. But it is in that remote territory that Jim achieves people’s recognition as well as he manages to reach a state of inner peace and regain his self-confidence.

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