The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad - Biography and Pre-Quiz Details
This content provides insights into Joseph Conrad's life, including his upbringing, career, and struggles. It also includes a pre-quiz related to his work "The Lagoon" with questions about the characters and plot. Conrad's life journey, from a difficult childhood to becoming a renowned author, is outlined alongside a quiz to test understanding of his literary works.
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The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad Presented By: Dillon Kumontoy, Khayyam Saleem, Anuraag Shankar
Pre-Quiz 1. Who was the main character (the one telling the story)? a. Arsat b. Tuan c. Diamelen d. Mara Where does the story take place? a. New Zealand b. Boca Raton c. Malay Peninsula d. Senegal Who is sick/dying in the beginning? a. Diamelen b. Tuan c. Arsat d. John 4. How did Arsat s brother die? a. Suicide b. Tuberculosis c. He was killed while Arsat was trying to escape d. Nonsense! Arsat s brother did not die! 5. What happens to Diamelen in the end? a. She lives happily with Arsat b. She runs away and goes back to Inchi Miday c. She marries John. d. She dies. 2. 3.
Biography Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski December 3rd, 1857-August 3rd, 1924 Berdiczew, Poland (Russian Occupation) 1862- Father was taken into penal exile Romantic nationalists Organized the secret Polish National Committee Family became very sick Mother died of TB Father also contracted TB
Biography Taught at home by his father (poet/playwright/translator) Frailty, and loneliness Escaped through books May, 1869- Father died Taken into the care of his uncle October, 1874- Merchant Marine for the french three voyages (West Indies)
Biography After a suicide attempt- English merchant navy 1886- The Black Mate First story (Magazine competition) Praised by Henry James H.G. Wells 1896- An Outcast of the Islands and Jessie George
Biography 1899- Heart of Darkness Published in Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine 1902-Typhoon and Youth collection of short stories 1900s- A shift in the subject of his work experiences at sea => politics Nostromo (1904) The Secret Agent (1907) Under Western Eyes (1911)
Biography Still lived an uneasy life Plagued with money and health problems Apparently, he could not work effectively unless he were close to breakdown, on the edge of psychic disorders, ill in body and mind The inner disorder was far greater, and when it was at its most intense, he function the most effectively artistically - Frederick R. Karl 1910- Nervous breakdown (persisted)
Biography Mainstream popularity with Chance Due to strong advertising campaign in America (New York Harbor) Financial security and fame Other works 1920-The Rescue 1923-The Rover (Last Novel) Last Essay (Published posthumously)
Literary Terms Image Language that creates a concrete representation of an object or an experience Creates a vivid mental picture in the reader s mind Collectively referred to in a story as the imagery In The Lagoon slanting beams of sunset touched the broadside of the canoe with a fiery glow, throwing the slender and distorted shadows of its crew upon the streaked glitter of the river receded from the marshy bank, leaving a level strip of bright-green, reedy grass to frame the reflected blueness of the sky. A fleecy pink cloud drifted high above
PASSAGE The forests, somber and dull, stood motionless and silent on each side of the broad stream. At the foot of big, towering trees, trunkless nipa palms rose from the mud of the bank, in bunches of leaves enormous and heavy, that hung unstirring over the brown swirl of eddies. In the stillness of the air every tree, every leaf, every bough, every tendril of creeper and every petal of minute blossoms seemed to have been bewitched into an immobility perfect and final. Nothing moved on the river but the eight paddles that rose flashing regularly, dipped together with a single splash; while the steersman swept right and left with a periodic and sudden flourish of his blade describing a glinting semicircle above his head. The churned up water frothed alongside with a confused murmur. And the white man's canoe, advancing upstream in the short-lived disturbance of its own making, seemed to enter the portals of a land from which the very memory of motion had for ever departed.
Literary Terms (cont.) Character A person who figures in the action of a literary work Types o Protagonist/Main Character - central figure in a literary work o Minor Characters - ones who play lesser roles In The Lagoon Main character - Arsat Minor Characters - Diamelen, Tuan, Ichi Miday
ACTIVITY REMORSE and IMAGERY
Post-Quiz 1) Define the term imagery within the context of the story? 2) How did the subject of his writings change in the 1900s? a) from ________________ to ________________ 3) Name another one of Joseph Conrad s most famous works. 4) TRUE or FALSE: Arsat was satisfied with how he lived his life at the end of the story. 5) In what mental state does Joseph Conrad supposedly perform his best?
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