@article{8df1f7fb-90a0-4bf5-b0d9-04a050baf251,
author = {Agata Kowol},
title = {Emotions versus Self-knowledge in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and The Shadow-Line},
journal = {Yearbook of Conrad Studies},
volume = {2016},
number = {Vol. 11},
year = {2017},
issn = {1899-3028},
pages = {59-66},keywords = {Joseph Conrad; Lord Jim; The Shadow-Line; emotions; self-knowledge; self-delusion; imagination.},
abstract = {The aim of this paper is to examine the impact that emotions exert on the process of acquisition of self-knowledge in the case of the main protagonists of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and his The Shadow-Line. What is characteristic of both is that the continuity of their safe established lives is disrupted by their sudden and impulsive actions, which determine their fates and consciousnesses: Jim’s fatal jump from the Patna, and a seemingly unmotivated resignation from a satisfactory job of the young Captain, respectively. Both actions seem to have been a result of the characters’ excessive self-centredeness, their mood swings, overheated imagination, self-delusion and undervalued self-estimation, which are typical of youth, a period marked by disproportionate emotionality and a necessity to take decisions which will shape one’s future life. In Conrad’s world, pursuit of self-knowledge assumes the proportions of a moral imperative of every human being. The cases of Jim and the young Captain are considered against the backdrop of Conrad’s epistemological scepticism and heroic ethics. },
doi = {10.4467/20843941YC.16.003.6849},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/yearbook-of-conrad-studies/article/emotions-versus-self-knowledge-in-joseph-conrads-lord-jim-and-the-shadow-line}
}