lord jim
...on trial, the young idealistic Jim’s tale is told by Marlow. Marlow sees something in Jim that he recognizes, or even fears, in himself. Jim is stripped of his papers and is left to follow an existence avoiding his own identity and seeking anonymity as he travels the world. Marlow organizes a meeting through which Jim goes to Patusan, a remote and in Conrad’s terms prehistoric region. Jim brings order and stability to the area with his strength of character and leadership. The arrival of the treacherous Gentleman Brown shakes the peace Jim has created and his value systems are called into question before the horror of the ending. Lord Jim is a story written in the early 1900’s by a famous author named Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim is a story of a man named Marlow’s struggle to tell and to understand the life story of a man named Jim. Jim is the main character who has to fight against his own past and his attempt to prove himself to the world after he has made one terrible error. The novel begins with the hopeless voyage of a vessel, Patna, which Jim - the chief mate - and the rest of the crew abandon with its passengers still on board. Jim did not mean to make this terribly mistake, but was caught up in the moment and now has to live with his action. Put ...