JOSEPH CONARD: LORD JIM

The story of Lord Jim is powerfully enthralling. Its central idea is splendidly conceived and ably out while, for background, there is the ever-shifting panorama of the great Pacific Ocean. A promising young Englishman, son of a priest, become the chief maye of a ship called the Patna before he has been tested by experience of he hardships of life at sea. He dreams of heroic deeds but, when the real crisi comes, he is seized by panic, and he desert the sinking ship with the other officers, leaving the eight hundred sleeping pilgrim-passengers to their fact. The ship, by some miracle, keeps afloat, and is towed to the Suez by a French gun-boat; and its officers are disgraced. The issue of Jim's honour is for him beyond the decision of any court of inquiry. Another chance must come to let him prove himself to be the hero of his own romantic imagination. He tries to make a fresh start; but the story of his disgrace follows him everywhere. Finally, he accepts the position of a trader in a remote Malay village where as adviser, he is loved, trusted, and admird by a savage tribe. By courage and self-sacrifice, he feels he has mastered his fate and made amends for his previous act of cowardice. Unfortunately, his people attribute supernatural powers to him. But when he allows a band of pirates to go free after an attack on the village, the pirates abuse his generosity and kill the young son of Chief Doramin, his own closest friend. Instantly his prestige is gone. He is regarded as a devil who has brought about this dire misfortune. He refuses to fight his life, leaves the girl he loves, and gives himself up to be shot by the aged Doramin.

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