『로드 짐』에서의 콘래드의 서사전략: 말로우, “우리 중의 한 사람”
Conrad’s Narrative Strategy in Lord Jim: Marlow, “One of Us”
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This paper commences with the doubt about Marlow’s reliability in telling Jim’s story to the listener and reader in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. Marlow describes Jim who in the first part of the novel abandons the Patna which is in a critical condition and carrying about 800 passengers; in the last part, he exerts himself to regain his fame in Patusan but he decides to accept his death for his own cause. Marlow tries to understand Jim using several minor narrators who support Marlow’s opinion and judgement. However, I argue how much the reader and listener can trust Marlow and minor narrators, and therefore we should distinguish the author and narrator from the implied author, who has sensibility that accounts for the narrative. With the suggestion that the structure of the novel has something to do with Marlow’s intention to control all the narratives, I disclose the concealed contradictions in the narratives. From chapter 1 to 3, the omniscient writer draws the reader’s attention to how insufficient Jim is to meet the needs as the first mate by showing his failures. From chapter 5 to 35, Marlow has authority over Jim by observing and intervening in Jim’s affairs and alludes to his weakness. From chapter 36 to 45, the privileged man appears as Marlow’s mouthpiece to represent the way of Jim’s death. Though Conrad uses the three different narrators, I suggest it is Marlow’s strategy to lead us to see the theme of ‘the journey into the deep truth of human heart.’ So, as a double of Conrad, Marlow just shows his concern of ‘the state of a man’s soul’ rather than the white man in a colonial milieu. It is likely to read Jim’s story as a production of Britain’s imperialism in that Marlow sends Jim to Patusan in order to occupy and construct a new colony after ousting other colonists. This is why Marlow calls Jim one of us. Using multiple voices, Conrad’s narrative strategy functions to blur the historically specific conditions that allow for the construction of a figure such as Jim. Through the voice of the implied author we should catch, Lord Jim can be read as the tale which is concerned with the relationship between colonizer and colonized.
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This paper commences with the doubt about Marlow’s reliability in telling Jim’s story to the listener and reader in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. Marlow describes Jim who in the first part of the novel abandons the Patna which is in a critical condition and carrying about 800 passengers; in the last part, he exerts himself to regain his fame in Patusan but he decides to accept his death for his own cause. Marlow tries to understand Jim using several minor narrators who support Marlow’s opinion and judgement. However, I argue how much the reader and listener can trust Marlow and minor narrators, and therefore we should distinguish the author and narrator from the implied author, who has sensibility that accounts for the narrative. With the suggestion that the structure of the novel has something to do with Marlow’s intention to control all the narratives, I disclose the concealed contradictions in the narratives. From chapter 1 to 3, the omniscient writer draws the reader’s attention to how insufficient Jim is to meet the needs as the first mate by showing his failures. From chapter 5 to 35, Marlow has authority over Jim by observing and intervening in Jim’s affairs and alludes to his weakness. From chapter 36 to 45, the privileged man appears as Marlow’s mouthpiece to represent the way of Jim’s death. Though Conrad uses the three different narrators, I suggest it is Marlow’s strategy to lead us to see the theme of ‘the journey into the deep truth of human heart.’ So, as a double of Conrad, Marlow just shows his concern of ‘the state of a man’s soul’ rather than the white man in a colonial milieu. It is likely to read Jim’s story as a production of Britain’s imperialism in that Marlow sends Jim to Patusan in order to occupy and construct a new colony after ousting other colonists. This is why Marlow calls Jim one of us. Using multiple voices, Conrad’s narrative strategy functions to blur the historically specific conditions that allow for the construction of a figure such as Jim. Through the voice of the implied author we should catch, Lord Jim can be read as the tale which is concerned with the relationship between colonizer and colonized.
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