The Study Of The Spiritual Homeland Of Conrad's Novels

As an outstanding novelist in England, Joseph Conrad has an enduring reputation in the literary world with wide background,profound themes and exquisite art in his works. At the aim of deeply probe into the motivation, the hard course and the special trait, what we should do is to set from the"spiritual homeland", in touch with Conrad's career, through carefully reading and analysis of a number of important works of Conrad."Moral"is regularly found in Conrad's works when we are probing into the spiritual homeland of Conrad's novels. Besides, Conrad has pay great concentration on the social and moral function in his works. In his opinion,"moral discovering should be the goal of every story". As a result, if we want to have much more interpretation of this writer, the better way is to look at the spiritual homeland of Conrad's fictions from the level of the"morality".Thus, the thesis goes on with four levels. Firstly, to investigate the commencement and agent of Conrad's spiritual homeland both from the macroscopic and microscopic dimensions. Then, to excavate Conrad's consideration and persistence about the morality and the life. Thirdly, to reveal his efforts to find the morality and construct the paradise . Finally, to dig out its resources. In order to excavate the old and traditional values which Conrad stands by all the time during his peculiar experience in the sea and the jungle, this article attempts to set from the Eden consciousness's angle, inject the tradition of British merchant fleet and let the hero of his works ask significance of life, contacting Conrad's life and the times'concerns. Besides, at the aim of finish the special purpose, we have used historical and cultural approaches to do that. Of course, it shows Conrad's dedication to his spiritual homeland.There are two aspects of innovations in the thesis: One is to deep into the ethical considerations which is made to have a relation with the tradition of British merchant fleet in Conrad's novels with conventional means. As everyone knows that any idea can not be isolated, the idea of a writer definitely has its own history and a tradition of induced infiltration, Conrad included. The second is to connect their moral values to their Eden consciousness at the purpose of understanding the completeness of writer's values. Based on the understanding, we know the reason why Conrad had put his moral angle into every practice in his novels. Defined the consideration, seeking and persistence as the areas of Conrad's consciousness in morality which is not only enriched the study of 20th century literature of the western tradition and the value of their homes searching for cognition, to some extent, but also provides a reference of the cultural sources when cultural values are redeveloping in a new situation during the 21st century.