" Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim, written in 1900 by Joseph Conrad is a tragic heroic novel portraying the main character's (Jim) unsuccessful attempts to escape his cowardice past. Jim was brought up in a religious English family, his father being a parson. Throughout his youth, Jim was greatly fascinated by popular literature, especially heroic sea novels. His fascination resulted into great love for the sea, and later his father sent him to a merchant marine academy. During all the years he spent at the sea, he constantly dreamt of doing something heroic; but once the opportunity was between his hands he failed to take advantage of it. His failure became a shadow, which haunted him away from England, then from every other port in the East Indies until he finally settled in Patusan, a dark hidden place.…