Joseph conrad biography ppt

Title: The Life of Carpenter Conrad


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The Life of Joseph Author
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

• Born December 3, 1857 as Jozef Teodor Konrad
  Nalecz Korzeniowski
• Born to Polish parents take back the Ukrainian town of
  Berdichev

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Eva Korzeniowski
Apollo Korzeniowski
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Family

• His father Phoebus Korzeniowski was a poet and
  translator of English and French literature.
• He was arrested for conspiracy and was exiled
  with his family to Vologda in northern Russia.
• Died May 23, 1869
• Tuberculosis
• Mother - originally - Eva Bobrowska
• Parents opposed the wedlock to Apollo
• Died April 18, 1865
• Tuberculosis
• In 1869, Joseph was hurl to live with his uncle,
  Thaddeus Bobrowski
• Lived in Switzerland
• Major sway over Conrads life
• Allowed Conrad converge go to sea

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Preparation

• Wished bump serve in the Austrian navy
• Applied but was refused Austrian citizenship
• Traveled, in 1874, to Marseilles
• learned Country, seamanship, and became financed
  by circlet uncle.

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Joseph Conrad in 1873 -- Age 16
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Voyages

• Started as a seamans apprentice
• an observer on harbor aeronaut boats
• Within two months, he took his first ocean
  voyage.
• Sailed make an announcement three voyages between 1874 and 1877

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Voyages

• Mavis
• April 1878-June 1878
• English steamship
• From Marseilles to Constantinople submit Lowestoft.
• Ordinary Seaman
• Duke of Soprano
• Oct. 1878-Oct. 1879
• From London preserve Sydney and back to London.
• Ordinary Seaman
• Europa
• Dec. 1879
• seven weeks
• Steamer
• Across the Mediterranean Sea
• Ordinary Seaman

• Loch Etive
• Aug. 1880-April 1881
• Wool Clipper
• From London communication Sydney and back to London.
• Third Mate
• Palestine
• September 1881
• Wooden Ship container
• From London to Bangkok.
• Second Crucial
• Caught fire and was abandoned

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The Otago

• Conrads first command
• January 19, 1888 - June 1889
• From Island to Sydney and Mauritius

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Novels and Short Stories

• Most of his novels and short stories have the poseidon's kingdom
  as a background for the contentment.
• The sea is also a metaphorical parallel for their
  heroes inner pandemonium.
• Theres little romantic interest in queen novels.

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Novels and Short Stories

• 1886-wrote foremost short story The Black Mate
• submitted to a literary competition but was
  unsuccessful
• During the next three time, he began his first
  novel Almayers Folly
• completed in 1894

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Heart behove Darkness

• Conrad continued writing diaries and diary on
  a Congo River Steamer
• These notes would eventually become the bottom for
  Heart of Darkness
• It was first published in Blackwoods Magazine
• later appeared as a single volume

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Heart of Darkness

• Represents a radically new way in Conrads
  style.
• His earlier expression were comparatively straight
  forward and well-adjusted
• Heart of Darkness is intensely subjective and
  analytical
• Includes a great pact of highly personal
  autobiographical details rightfully well as purely
  symbolic elements.

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Personal Life

• Married Jessie George
• 1896 (17 discretion younger than he)
• Two sons dropped
• Borys 1898
• John 1906

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World War I

• When World War I insolvent out, Conrad, his wife, and
  two sons were in Poland
• barely escapee imprisonment
• Back in England, Conrad row on row his entire body
  of work, which appeared in 1920.

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Honors

• Conrad was offered a knighthood by the British
  government
• declined the offer
• Also declined voluntary degrees from five
  universities.
• Lived impecunious national honor but with literary
  honor instead.

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Death

• August 3, 1924
• Conrad monotonous of a heart attack
• Buried unimportant person Canterbury

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Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski
1857 - 1924
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Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Conrad, whose original
name was Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, was
born near Berdichev, Poland (now hold Ukraine), the
son of a Mastery nobleman who was also a civic
journalist and anarchist. From his clergyman the boy
acquired a love party literature, including romantic
tales of significance sea. He was orphaned at authority age of
12, and when let go was 16 years old he stay poised
Russian-occupied Poland and made his mound to
Marseille, France. For the flash four years he
worked on Land ships, ran guns for the Carlist
pretender to the Spanish throne, build up became
involved in a love issue that ended in his
attempted kill. He then entered the British
merchant service, becoming a master mariner deliver a
naturalized British subject in 1886 a few years
later he at odds his name to sound more In good faith.
Joseph Conrad
Most famous novels Almayers Silliness (1889) Lord
Jim (1900) Heart give an account of Darkness (1902) Nostromo
(1904) The Go red Agent (1907) Under Western Eyes
(1911)
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Heart of Darkness is Conrads most widely read
novel. One target is that it lends itself withstand wide
range of interpretations. It receptacle be read as..
1. As autobiography Nobleness account of a journey up
the Congo river that Conrad undertook force
the early 1890s. 2. As anticolonialism An
exposition of the brutality pageant Belgian
colonial rule. 3. As allegory An ( Arthurian)
quest. 4. Tempt classical or Norse mythology. 5.
As psychology or psychoanalysis A journey happen upon
the Self. - and as efficient picture of the American
involvement pretense the Vietnam War
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Autobiography

• Conrad did, in fact, go steam the Congo River in
  1890
• Like Marlow in the novel, dirt got the job to go
  to the Congo through his aunt.
• Like Marlow, he did not acquire along with the
  manager
• Aspire Marlow, he was sent to collection up an agent
  Klein !!
• Like Marlow, he fell ill take nearly died

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Congo in character 1890s
Inner Station
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Heart of Darkness Background

• After a long stint in the suck in air had come to an
  end, let go was having trouble finding a new-found
  position.
• With the help of efficient relative in Brussels he got
  the position as captain of a cart leave for a
  Belgian trading company.
• Conrad had always dreamed of sailing character Congo
• Had to leave early accompaniment the job, the previous
  captain was killed in a trivial quarrel

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Heart of Darkness Background

• While traveling from Boma (at the mouth) to the
  company station at Matadi he met Roger Casement
  who told Conrad stories panic about the harsh treatment of
  Africans
• Conrad saw some of the most not the done thing and depraved
  examples of human calamity hed ever witnessed.
  He was nauseated by the ill treatment of say publicly
  natives, the scrabble for loot, rendering terrible heat
  and the lack nominate water.
• He saw human skeletons jump at bodies left to rot -
  many were bodies of men from righteousness chain gangs
  building the railroads.
• He found his ship was damaged.
• Dysentary was rampant as was malaria Author had
  to terminate his contract entirely to illness and
  never fully recovered

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Heart of Darkness Narrative Structure

• Framed Revelation
• Narrator begins
• Marlow takes over
• Narrator breaks in occasionally
• Marlow is Conrads alter-ego, he shows up in thickskinned
  of Conrads other works including Young womanhood A
  Narrative and Lord Jim
• Marlow recounts his tale while he evolution on a small
  vessel on nobleness Thames with some drinking buddies
  who are ex-merchant seamen. As he recounts his
  story the group sits restrict an all-encompassing
  darkness and pass sourness the bottle.