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Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim (1900) is mainly set in the Malay Archipelago. This paper examines the role and significance of the Malay world, which is a place of another culture for Marlow and Jim, throug...h an analysis of Jim's idealism, Marlow's narrative and other peripheral characters in Malay society. In the first chapter, I discuss the meaning of Jim's dreams of heroism and Marlow's discourse of "one of us." Whereas Jim is frustrated with his own behavior, Marlow adopts a paternal attitude and is willing to save him, repeatedly referring to Jim as "one of us." The concept of "one of us" serves to establish a Western identity in opposition to the Malay people, such as when the narrator refers to Dain Waris as "one of them," that is to say "others." In the second chapter, I discuss the representation of the Malay world, concentrating on the relationship between Jim and the Malay people, especially Dain Waris. Generally, Patusan society reflects the colonialist ethos of late nineteenth-century Europe. Malay characters "remain in the background, secondary figures"; however, Dain is portrayed as Jim's trusted friend, a relationship that transgresses racial boundaries. The colonial sphere of the Malay world in this novel is not only a suitable location for Jim to try to realize his own dreams of heroism, but also a significant place for Marlow to establish a Western identity by considering Jim to be "one of us" and identifying the Malay community as the "other." On the other hand, Marlow's narrative of describing the friendship between Jim and Dain implies the possibility of cross-cultural cooperation which transcends the colonial power relationship. I argue that this double perspective creates ambivalent narrative which more or less overlaps with the author's attitude toward contemporary colonial society of the Malay world.show more
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