At Patusan, Jim succeeded to rehabilitate himself but when his career was at its pinnacle, he became the victim of the treachery of Brown, a ruffian, and was shot dead by Doramin, as a revenge against his son Dain Waris’s death. Marlow was very sympathetic towards Jim and he assisted him a lot during his trying time. After going to great lengths in the quest for the right job, he arrived at Patusan, a remote country, by the help of Marlow’s, German friend, Stein. Jim faced the trial all alone and felt more humiliated and isolated when the court canceled the certificates of the Patna, officers. Thus, it does not surprise us when we see the hero of Lord Jim an isolated figure, a fugitive, shifting from one place to another, pursued by a sense of disgrace and humiliation on account of one impulsive act of jumping from Tatna’ to save his own life, leaving behind eight hundred pilgrims to their fate, when she collided. But his end was not like that of Jim he died in 1868 and his power was passed on to his nephew. He established peace and prosperity there and was made Rajah of Sarawak in 1841. Getting hopeless in England and India, Brooke reached Sarawak. Regarding adventures of Jim in Patusan, Conrad was considerably indebted to various books about Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak. Significantly, he changed the motive for desertion, from unscrupulous financial greed to a very understandable fear because fear was for him, the most basic, the most eradicable of our feelings….but as long as he clings to life, he can not destroy fear the fear, subtle, indestructible and terrible that pervades his being that tinges his thoughts that lurks in his heart that watches on his lips the struggle of his breath.” (An Outpost of Progress) Conrad was in the East at the time and must have heard about the whole episode. It did not sink, and it was towed into Aden just when the captain was reporting the ship lost with all hands. During some bad weather, she was abandoned by her officers (except for one who was forced to stay behind) as part of a scheme to collect the insurance on the boat, which they presumed would founder. In 1880, an old steamer, called the Jeddah, carrying about nine hundred pilgrims from the Dutch islands, left Singapore for Jeddah, the port of Mecca. But two other sources are more important. Conrad himself had been injured on the High land-Forest in 1887 and, like Jim, after a period in hospital, he stayed in the East and took a berth out there. For instance, while sailing on the “Vidar” he met a Jim Lingard, a white trader who was called Lord Jim on account of his swaggering manner. “For the material of the book Conrad drew, as always, on fragments of personal experience. (i) The Publication and Sources of Lord Jim When it first appeared, it was warmly hailed by Edward Garnett, Galsworthy and Henry James but was also criticized in various contemporary Reviews and Magazines. It was published as a serial for Blackwood’s Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900, and published as a book in 1900.
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