By Joseph Conrad
The staff of the service provider send Narcissus rally round a significantly in poor health fellow crewmember, James Wait, placing their lives and the destiny of the send in jeopardy.
Based partially on writer Joseph Conrad's event in the course of a voyage from Bombay to London, The Nigger of the Narcissus is taken into account to be one among Conrad's most sensible works.
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And also like Christ, Jerry is not apparently meek. His unyielding refusal to do what he does not want to do implies strength rather than weakness, and we must conclude that it's the people who meekly go along with the corruptions of those with power who are actually the meek ones. If we think of the novel in this way, we can conclude two things: the truly meek do inherit the earth, to the extent that the meek conformists aren't the ones victimised by Archie and his like; but since the only apparently meek Jerry is so ruthlessly unyielding and since he really does win, Obie was right in a way he didn't intend: the meekly conventional don't inherit the earth after all.
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