LORD JIM

Joseph Conrad

Cargo, Nico Paolo C.

Ubaldo, Matthan Johannes E.
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THE AUTHOR: JOSEPH CONRAD
• DoB: Decmber 3, 1857.
• DoD: August 3, 1924.
• Was a Polish-British Writer.
• Regarded as one of the Greatest Novelists to Write in
English.
• Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical
setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the
midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable
universe.
• He made his living as a sailor, joining the English
merchant service in 1878 and eventually becoming a
Ship Captain.
• Lord Jim is one of his Major Works.
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 BRIEF SUMMARY

The story of Lord Jim is Marlow's struggle in telling and to understand the life of Jim.
When Jim was little he often dreamed about becoming a hero. So far, his new adventure
comes and is serving aboard a vessel called the Patna, carrying Muslim pilgrims to
Mecca, when the ship stroke an underwater object and sprang a leak. The crew
abandoned passengers to their fate. Jim, not thinking clearly, abandoned the ship with
the rest of the crew along with the rest of the officers, is subjected to an official inquiry
by a seamen. After he is stripped of his officer's certification, that he first meets Marlow.
Seeing something in Jim that he recognized, in himself, Marlow stroke up a tortured
friendship with Jim. Jim told him his story, and Marlow helped him obtain a series of
jobs.
 PLOT

Beginning of the Story – Jim was born in England and he dreamed to be a navy. –

Developing of Problem – The Patusan stroke underwater, and Jim abandoned some
people and they died.

Climax of the Story – Jim faced the gun that Doramin pointed at him and died with a
sense of personal honor and self-esteem.
SETTING
• 1800’s
• Fictional Place
• “South Seas Country of
Patusan”
• Inhabited by “Malays”
 CHARACTERS
• Jim – Main Character
• Marlow – The Storyteller
• Jewel – Apple of Jim’s Eye
• Gentleman Brown – Pirate
• Cornelius – Evil Stepfather
• Stein - Adventurer and Naturalist whom Marlow seeks for help in getting Jim a job
 CHARACTERS

• Captain Brierly - He is on the board of inquiry that tries Jim.

• Doramin - Chief of the Bugis; a wise, kind old man and a "war-comrade" of Stein's.
The one who saved and killed Jim.
• Dain Waris - Doramin's son and Jim's best friend.
 EXPOSITION
Lines from The Summary Interpretation in your own words

With Jim’s youthful, romantic aspirations for the sea, he is

Exposition physically powerful; he has "Ability in the abstract." He
roams the Asian South Seas as a water-clerk, moving from
place to place, always trying to outrun, it seems, a particular
fact of his past. The story then cuts to an early incident
where Jim lost an opportunity to prove his mettle: he "leapt"
too late, missing his chance. Then, after a long injury and
hospital stay, instead of deciding to return to England, Jim
accepts the position of chief mate of the Patna, an old local
steamship carrying 800 Muslim pilgrims to Mecca. There
are five white men on board, as crew, and the voyage is led
by a fat, crazy, German captain. One night, as the ship sails
quietly through the Arabian Sea, the crew, including Jim,
feels a strange vibration disturb the underbelly of the ship.
Suddenly, we encounter Jim speaking at the official Inquiry,
which is attempting to gather facts about the event.
Believing that the steamship was on the verge of sinking at
any moment, and fearful of a panic, the crew of
the Patna loosed a lifeboat for themselves.
 RISING ACTION
Lines from The Summary Interpretation in your own words

Though it had been only a trick of the eyes, they believed that
Rising when the light on the ship had gone out, the ship had sunk like
Action iron to the floor of the sea. The crew had devised a story: they
told their rescuers that the ship sank beneath their very feet
and that they alone were able to launch a single lifeboat in
time. Ironically, however, we learn that the steamship never
actually sank. Iron proved to be a hardy metal. Upon its
discovery by a French gunboat, the Patna is brought safely to
an English port. The story becomes notorious throughout the
region. Marlow, a British captain, attends the Inquiry and is
struck by some quality of Jim's character. Thus he is now
telling the story of Jim. A party is gathered around him on a
verandah, listening, as he explains what happened next. When
the judgment was meted out and Jim's sea certificates were
effectively canceled, Marlow, having befriended the poor
youth, offered him help. Thus Jim is sent to live with an old
friend of Marlow's with no family, the owner of a rice mill. But
when another crew member of the Patna coincidentally turns
out to be the manager of the machinery at the very same mill,
Jim leaves, not wanting to be near the memory of the event. He
instead works as a runner of boats and then as a water-clerk,
getting in a barroom brawl with a man who makes a
derogatory comment regarding the Patna.
 CLIMAX
Lines from The Summary Interpretation in your own words

Climax Now cutting to another source, Marlow also

explains that, on a tip, he met Brown, a man of
sordid reputation, in Bangkok. Brown
explained that he had stolen a schooner.
Brown's band of men wanted to cross the
Indian Ocean, but they realized they were
running out of both food and water. Landing in
Patusan in the hope of replenishing their
supplies, Brown and his men were greeted by
gunfire. The attack was led by Dain Waris
(because Jim was away, in the interior). One of
the Rajah's men took the opportunity to
double-deal and to encourage Brown and his
men to kill Jim in order to defeat Doramin's
settlement. Cornelius encouraged him
likewise.
 FALLING ACTION
Lines from The Summary Interpretation in your own words

Falling Upon Jim's return, he and Brown have an

Action exchange that strikes Jim in his weak
spot. Recognizing that this man Brown is
what he himself could have become, had
Fortune given him the right opportunity,
Jim gives Brown the chance to escape
safely. In the end, however, with
Cornelius's help, Brown and his men
sneak up on Dain Waris and his men and
open fire, killing Dain Waris, who just
received news from Jim that all had been
settled and things were stable. Jim had
even sent the ring along as a sign of trust.
 RESOLUTION
Lines from The Summary Interpretation in your own words

Resolution Now, when Doramin looks upon his son's

dead body and sees the silver ring on his
forefinger, Doramin throws an emotional
rage. Jim, hearing the news, ignores
Jewel's pleas and walks resolutely to
meet justice in the form of Doramin.
Doramin shoots him in the chest, killing
Jim. But Jim has now atoned for his
failures. The tale ends with Marlow
offering his reader a last view of Stein,
growing old, and a muted Jewel.
 THEME
• Lost Honor

• Modernist literature frequently explores the theme of loss. In Lord Jim Joseph Conrad probes Jim's loss of
honor, his acute awareness of that loss, and the related consequences. Jim is an idealist and romantically
imagines himself capable of great heroism in the face of danger. His personal moral code demands
perfection in duty, responsibility, and ethics. However, he fails these ideals when he abandons the
ship Patna and her passengers. His self-aggrandizing illusions are shattered, his reputation as a seaman is
wrecked, and he becomes a social outcast.

• Nevertheless, Jim refuses to give up on his idealized heroism and inflexible moral code. The incident of
the Patna haunts him as he runs from his past, moving from seaport to seaport, seeking a second chance by
which to recover his lost honor. This wandering quest ultimately brings him to the island of Patusan, where
he makes a final, heroic attempt to live life honorably as dictated by his romantic idealism. He leaves "his
earthly failings behind him and what sort of reputation he had," and immerses himself in "a totally new set
of conditions for his imaginative faculty to work upon." On the island, he becomes Tuan, or Lord, Jim—a
heroic figure whose honor is not questioned. Nevertheless, Jim remains burdened with the knowledge of
his dishonorable past.
 CONFLICT

• Internal Conflict: Jim is unable to escape his past wherein, instead of

being the hero he so wants to be, he ran away from the sinking ship. All
he wanted to do now was to redeem himself of his actions in the past.
When someone hears about his past, he automatically leaves and find a
new place to start over.
• External Conflict: Jim versus those who are jealous of what he has
attained in life despite his past, i.e. Gentleman Brown & Cornelius’
conspiracy against the main protagonist.
 MORAL OF THE STORY

• Your past will always haunt you, no matter how fast you run or how
far you go, it will always be right behind you. Its up to you
whether you’ll use your past as a lesson or as a source of fear.