rd Jim has been called Conrad's Hamlet, for it is the complex tragedy of an indecisive man of great inherent nobility who nevertheless, with "the stamp of one defect," manages to bring death and destruction upon those he loves. In form, this novel of Conrad's greatest period is no less rich and complicated than Hamlet. Using constant changes of point of view, narrations within narrations, kaleidoscopic time shifts, and other highly sophisticated and masterly fictional …showed first 75 words of 358 total…

…showed last 75 words of 358 total…trusted and beloved native leader when the invasion of Brown and his crew of cutthroats leads him to make an unrealistic, foolishly chivalric error of judgment which destroys his friends. He would not have made this error had not Brown insidiously appealed to his sense of guilt. Thus, as in the greatest tragedies, Jim's character haunted by the sin of his past and lost in his search for absolution-brings the ultimate catastrophe down upon him.