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JOSEPH CONRAD, JAMES JOYCE - Coggle Diagram
JOSEPH CONRAD
Life→
Polish origins→ British Navy→ Congo expedition→ British citizen
Works
→ Heart of Darkness→ Lord Jim→ Nostromo→ The Secret Agent
Themes
→ isolation→ evil→ moral uncertainty→ human fragility
Heart of Darkness
Characters
→ Marlow→ Kurtz
Plot
→ Congo journey→ ivory trade→ colonial brutality→ Kurtz’s decline→ “The horror! The horror!”
Themes
→ imperialism→ civilisation vs savagery→ evil→ truth→ duality
Historical Context
→ Congo Free State→ King Leopold II
Techniques
→ frame narrative→ flashbacks→ multiple voices
JAMES JOYCE
Life
→ Dublin→ Jesuit education→ Nora Barnacle→ Trieste→ Zurich
Works
→ Dubliners→ Portrait of the Artist→ Ulysses→ Finnegans Wake
Modernism
→ introspection→ multiple perspectives→ no omniscient narrator
Techniques
→ free indirect speech→ interior monologue→ stream of consciousness
Dubliners
Structure→ 15 stories
→ childhood→ adolescence→ maturity→ public life
Themes
→ paralysis→ escape→ failure→ stagnation
Epiphany
→ sudden revelation→ truth
Style
→ realism→ symbolism→ psychological depth