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"Those who read me know my conviction that
the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that
they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably amongst others, on the idea
of Fidelity,"
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C H A P T E R # 12
Joseph
Conrad's Idea of Fidelity
"The world, the temporal
world, rests on a few very simple ideas……. It rests notably, amongst others, on
the idea of fidelity". (Joseph Conrad)
Declaration on Fidelity
To understand Joseph Conrad
artistically, it is well to evoke that he came of a family of Polish patriots
and exiles of the land-owing class, that he was a British merchant sailor,
retiring with a master’s ticket, and being a Pole, that he was a fanatic of England,
we are not tedious personalities into literary criticism.
His attitude was sarcastic
and cynical, but his behaviour honourable and unswerving. Behaviour means the
behaviour of the characters of his creation: their virtues, notably honour,
fidelity and practical idealism. Joseph Conrad's novels have enough evidence of
this belief and much of Conrad's writing may be seen as a fantasia on fidelity.
One sentence and that of the statement of his own in the Preface to Personal Record
proves this:
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