The Theory Of Conrad Marine Ecological View And Life View Of The Novel

British writer Joseph Conrad is a dazzling pearl in western literature at the end of 19thcentury and beginning of 20thcentury. His works, generally divided into three categories—socialand political novels, jungle fictions and sea stories, win the hearts of the readers with the exotictheme, calm narration and profound connotation, and are regarded as an unsurpassed monumentin English literary history. F. R. Leavis, a famous scholar and critic of Cambridge University, hasremarked in his book The Great Tradition that Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest authorwriting in English, or even in any language. Virginia Woolf has also said that Conrad enjoyed thehighest reputation in Britain at that time. Joseph Conrad, as a writer who is referred to as“standing at the threshold of modernism”, exerts a rather far-reaching influence on literature.With the advent and development of globalization, the influence of Joseph Conrad isincreasingly great, and people’s research on him also becomes more and more thorough.Along with the development of literary theory, many original theories and viewpoints havebeen brought about, which has provided extending angles for the literary critics to conduct studyon Joseph Conrad’s works and achieve numerous results in it. This thesis, based on ecocriticismand taking Joseph Conrad’s sea stories as the objective point, tries to finding more newconnotations of his works.This paper includes three chapters besides introduction and conclusion. Introduction tracesthe achievements home and abroad of research on Joseph Conrad. Chapter One mainlyintroduces ecocriticism, covering the background and the reasons of its appearance, andillustrates its definition given by the scholars, as well as the questions and the significances ofecocriticism theory research; in Joseph Conrad’sea stories, the role of the sea, which is the mostobvious ecological image in the works and in nature, and the attitude of the characters to the sea,demonstrate the attitude of Joseph Conrad to marine ecosystem. Chapter Two mainly exploresthe ecological conception represented in Joseph Conrad’s sea stories. No matter the sea is instorm or calmness, Joseph Conrad always faces it together with his sailors, and Conrad’s view ofmarine ecosystem can be seen from their response and attitude. Chapter Three mainly discusseslife conception of Joseph Conrad, which, on the one hand, shows the treasure and rescue of life of the sailors, on the other hand, reveals that the feelings between the sailors are true lovedeveloped in the rain and wind. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. The ship friends JosephConrad made in his voyage life have made up the affection experience that was absent in hischildhood. The concluding part, in an echo of the three questions that ecocriticism studies, hasthus developed the relationship between Joseph Conrad’s ecological conception and lifeconception.