Illusion of Love and Marriage in Youths of Modern Society in Joseph Conrad’s Selected Short Stories
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Abstract
This paper analyses Joseph Conrad selected short stories, ‘The Lagoon’, ‘Amy
Foster’ and ‘Youth’. It examines the illusion of love and marriage in youths of
modern society where the youths experience the different feelings and emotions.
Providing stereotypical characteristics to characters, Conrad depicts the state of
contemporary society which has picked fall marriage and love, addressing the lost
immigrants, dreams of youth and struggle of youths for their existence. Conrad
attempts to visualize the love and marriage that has been imagined and practiced
through the modern society which has been affected by illusion. The paper contends
issues of illusion which creates the clash of identity and human relation with the
relation of modern society. The theme of the stories shows the consequences of
modernism in youths in modern society. The central theme of these selected stories is
that modernism creates illusion in which the youths neither totally avoid the
traditional values and beliefs nor accept the modern norms and concepts. The
characters undergo high level of illusion on the cultural and social myth, which limits
and controls modern- day society leading towards upheaval and struggles in their life.
In this way, this paper discloses new avenues examining a particular theme with
special attention to contextual relations.