Lord Jim

Character Analysis of Lord Jim Throughout all of Conrad’s writings there has never been one character which stood out the most like Jim, in Lord Jim. Jim is a person destined to be a hero, but too shy and scared to be considered one. When reading the opening paragraph, one would be led to believe that Jim is a great man destined for fame. From his appearance he would scare many with his great …

…haunts him for the rest of his life until his heroic death which makes him a tragic character in Lord Jim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Berthoud, Jacques. Joseph Conrad: The Major Phase. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. New York: Buccaneer Books, 1987. DiMauro, Laurie. Twentieth-Century Literacy Criticism. Detroit: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Mudrick, Marvin. Conrad: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966. Stapleton, Michael. The Cambridge Guide to English Literature. Detroit, Cambridge University Press, 1992.