Performance Of The Conrad Novel Dual Greek Culture Conflict And Causes Of

As a writer focused on the human nature and life Joseph Conrad showed the sprit that reception mixed with conflict,rejection and reflection to the Hellenism and Hebraism by his literature writing.Hellenism and Hebraism have been.They are two origins of western culture.Nearly 2000 years, Hellenism and Hebraism have been developing with conflict,and they all constructed western culture. Hellenism focus on rational and moral but Hebraism on spirituality and sin. Hellenism and Hebraism make Conrad's writing breakthrough the category of the traditional jungle and navigation novels,go to the deep culture content.Beyond the surface narrative there is hiding the confliction of Hellenism and Hebraism." Introduction" reviewed the status of the topic,carding the development and history position of Hellenism and Hebraism.This is the preparion to the paper.The first part discussed the factors of Hebraism in Conrad's novels.Mainly from his lives,Bible archetype and gloomy consciousness to analyzing the Hebraism of conrad's writing.The second part foces on the Hellenism in Conrad's novel.Two parts include the heroism of Conrad's maritime fictions and Stoic in his Lord Jim.Next part discusses the conflictions between Hellenism and Hebraism in Conrad's literture writing,including self-redeption and other-redeption,guilt and moral.And I will analyze the contradictions phenomenon because of the confliction by Hellenism and Hebraism.The fourth part investigates the reasons of the conflictions of Hellenism and Hebraism in Conrad's novels.From personal experience,his father death when he was a child made him to question the God.And this is conflicting with his christian identify.From western traditional culture,the Christianity has been impacted by the mordern culture,Conrad has been influenced too.This makes Conrad do not think that Christianity equivalent to the western high culture.But,facing the human sin and colonialism,Conrad wanted to show his solution way.The concept of Christianity's universalism is very important to him.Through Conrad's literture work,we would have much clearer understanding to western culture tradition.And this is the huge wealth which great english writer left to the world and other people.