est towards the world camethrough his mind politically and viewed on the issue of revolution (MBL 95). Conrad’s thoughtsalso included to move further from his experiences of travel and more into creating a fictionalnovel, while lacking personal adventures or feelings (MBL 97). In doing this, Conrad’scharacters became to be more like himself (MBL 93). Conrad does this since he believes that theindividual “enables [himself or herself] to make [their] way through the world” (MBL 94). Thereason Conrad has stated this was because this is his own and only personal strong opiniontowards the world that he includes in his novels. His literary form consists of three parts which includes the three-fold structure, Russiandoll effect, and opposing images. The three-fold structure is explained as how the book is dividedinto three chapters that contain three different characters, in which the narrator comes back tostate a summary and the significance of each chapter. The Russian doll effect is to be understoodas form within a form--a repetition of a story around a story--being similar to when unravelingone part of a story, there is still another part to be unraveled until you are down to the end of thestory line. The opposing images are the components of using all senses of the human body tohave a strong understanding when reading along any of Conrad’s novels (Dintenfass 8). Furthermore, Conrad’s themes deals with alienation, breakdown of communication, anddeath. The theme of alienation pertains to having the character feeling as if they don’t belong in acertain resident, which usually causes dissolution throughout Conrad’s novels. Briefly, thebreakdown of communication simply leads to the devastation of relationships in Conrad’scharacters, which has been considered as a characteristic of a Shakespearean tragedy. Death isnot a significant theme, but is needed to receive feedback from th...
