Study Guide: Lord Jim

Download or read book Study Guide: Lord Jim written by Jonathan Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Jim is the most dexterous novel written by the pioneer of modem English Novel, Joseph Conrad. The Novel, Lord Jim, primarily deals with the theme of fidelity, isolation and quest for individual identity, guilt and atonement. The title of the novel is based upon the name of the protagonist Lord Jim. Lord Jim is a seaman's yarn but in a new perspective-full of philosophical and psychological comments, several pages are devoted to the portraiture of not only the major character but to most of all the characters. The development of plot is frequently interrupted by the philosophical comments and psychological analysis of the character and also by the moralizing passages. The story is quite enticing, full of suspense and thrilling events but love is very meagre (not surprising to find in Conrad's Novels). Technique of narration does not appeal to the readers, rather it irritates them because it does not follow the chronological order. This kind of narration succeeds in attracting only the elite among the readers.