A Reading of Joseph Conrad's The Tale

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The Tale is a short story by Joseph Conrad. Typical of a Conrad story it is set at sea. The sea is symbolic of the unconscious and this story may be read as a story of the unconscious. On the outside, it seems simple; a man tells a woman a tale of the commanding officer of a patrol ship who gives false directions to another ship and sends it to its doom. In between the lines of the seemingly simple plot, however, can be read another tale; one which speaks of a human sea deeper than the sea of water; deeper, darker, and infinitely more mysterious. Man has navigated the sea of water but the unfathomed sea of his own being remains, for the most part, undiscovered. This is a sea different from the sea of this world and Conrad sets sail on it by telling a tale from another world. Sailing with Conrad, the reader can look out on the infinite vastness and try to form a picture of the infinite depth of a sea which is not visible to the human eye.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISSN: 2300-2697
• Umfang: Seite(n): 45-48
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences(4)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Zadeh, Mohammad Reza Modarres
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): SciPress
• (wo): Schweiz
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.4.45
• Rechteinformation: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ