so causes Jim to be very sheltered about the things he does with the tribe. When something does go wrong Jim over exerts himself into making it right. This feeling that he always has something he needs to set right is one of the main things that leads to his death. If Jim did not feel that he owed society something in a sense he would have never tried so hard to set things right with the tribe in the end.Jim had felt that he had lost his honor. Without his honor Jim struggled to feel like a whole man. This brings up a key aspect of the book and one of the most important questions: what may life be worth when honor is gone? (Lord Jim) Jim felt that he had nothing to stand for in life. A man with out his honor is a man that is torn in two. Caught between how his soul felt and how society choose to see him; Jim was a very unhappy person. Jim had very little integrity left. This caused him to feel insignificant when he applied himself to every day tasks. Without his honor Jim questioned his mortality. Society sets rules of conformity and generally accepted standards of conduct. Jim felt he had broken them thus again causing him to question his mortality and basic worth as a man. This questioning added to the all round irony of Lord Jim if Jim felt he had his honor he would have behaved as a normal man but instead he felt he had lost his honor leaving him a broken man. If Jim felt he had his honor he would have not felt the need to die for tribe member that was murdered. Thus, dying a very noble death and showing through it all he did in fact have his honor. This in part is the main irony of Lord Jim.The irony of this book is that Jim felt disgraced and wretched. He considered himself to be a total failure, worthless to everyone. Unable to live with himself anymore, Jim chooses suicide and in doing so died in a way that meant something. But really his life was not as bad as he thought it was; no one died from his...
