Spiritual Salvation While Facing Nihility

Actually, the knight spirit runs through Conrad's life. With this kind of energetic support, he was pondering over the essence of human nature, exploring the modern society's spiritual crisis, seeking the salvation of human soul and the salvation of human soul is the central concern of his works.However, he has the complex family background and life experience, he has the complex disposition and received education, All these factors make his knight spirit have the mood of hermitage which has the factors of pessimism, nihilism, skepticism and the irrationalism. Thus, all this causes Conrad's spiritual subject of presenting tragic and contradictory character.So this dissertation concludes that Conrad's spiritual subject, as a whole, was made up of the knight spirit and the mood of hermitage. It takes the knight spirit as the main body, and it is an organic unification of the knight spirit and the mood of hermitage; Conrad's salvation is the knight's spiritual salvation which he knows perfectly well that can't succeed, but insists on doing it.The spiritual inquiry that Conrad conducted tells us to quit self-centeredness, adopt a modest attitude towards others, to deal with the Self with a self-examining and self-repenting mind, to keep sober-minded in face of difficult moments in our life, to lift up ourselves in spiritual purgatory and return to our spiritual homes in the process of self-exile, which is actually a metaphor departing from self-centralism. All this carries great significance for us in how to see the Self from an economic, political, and cultural perspective and in how to deal with the relationship with the Other in an era of globalization.