Joseph Conrad: The Gothic Imagination

Joseph Conrad’s consistent concern is with the state of man vis-a-vis his nature, ideas and ideals in a complex world. His treatment of his protagonists and themes addresses the modernist concerns and view of man as placed in a political universe. Whether it is the pushes and pulls of man’s inner self or outer world, man’s movement in the universe is shown to be oscillatory rather than linear. And Conrad’s approach to his subject is suffused with a gothic sensibility that has not been adequately addressed. This study is an attempt to analyze Conrad’s works., in terms of theme and technique, from the Gothic Perspective.