The Negative Side of Literature: A Reevaluation of Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim"

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: none, , course: literature, language: English, abstract: abstract

In Joseph Conrad¿s Lord Jim, the protagonist Jim is motivated by some works of literature which are charming and didactic. This didactic literature can deceive the readers and tempt them to attempt the fictional event of the narrative in their real lives. Intriguingly, presenting the fiction into reality may cause a terrible impact upon its readers. The victim of literature which this paper tries to elucidate is Jim. Jim is a young man and he makes an irrevocable decision to become a hero and embody the values of heroic deeds in real situations like the way he reads them in literature. Unaware of the practicality of these notions in literature, hapless Jim propels himself to reverse fiction and change it to reality, but he fails.