Society and manner in Joseph Conrad's Victory

Abstract EN

In his novel entitled Victory.

Joseph Conrad asserts himself as a writer for man as a moral agent in this universe.

His characters exhibit the possibilities for isolation and moral deterioration in modern life.

The aim of this research is to investigate some social issues that touch the core of humanity.

In this novel Conrad's perceptive eyes has noted so many social issues that need to be tackled .

Implicitly and explicitly, Conrad launches so many controversial issues like: communication and disengagement or skepticism, conflict between heart and mind, fate, demonic identification sense of guilt in man, men, women and homosexuality, the clash between the civilized and the raw, the disregarded local people and the disregarded Chinese, and finally the issue of gossip in society.