Joseph Conrad grew up in the Polish Ukraine, Polish Ukraine is a huge, fertile plain between the counties of Poland and Russia. Polish Ukrainewas a divided nation, that held four languages, four religions, and various of different social classes. Many of the families inethis area were Polish-speaking inhabitants, including Conrad's family. They belonged to the szlachta, a hereditary class in the aristocracy on the social hierarchy, combining qualities of gentry and nobility. Despite the areas poor state, residence in the had political power. Conrad's father, Apollo Korzeniowski, studied for six years at St. Petersburg University. Conrad’s father left before he had the chance to earn his degree Conrad's mother Eva Bobrowska, was thirteen years younger than Apollo. She was the only daughter in a family of six sons. After Eva met Apollo in the year 1847, Eva was was in love with Apollo's poetic personality and loyalty. On the other hand, he admired her lively imagination. Eva's family disagreed with the dating situation, the two were married in 1856

After the two couples got married, Apollo did not conduct much time for his wife. His main focus was his literature and political activities, which brought income into the house. He wrote many plays and social satires. Apollo works wasn’t known as much, but he had a huge influence on his song Conrad.

Joseph Conrad is an Innovator in British Literature. His literature is influenced by his experiences in traveling to foreign countries around the world. Conrad’s literature has several of styles and techniques he uses to express his work as British literature. His unique style fluctuates from powerful and deep to exposed and harsh. His style keeps the reader in constant touch and interested in the story. In Conrad’s novels, they’re based on having both a psychological and sociological plot in them. By having a psychological and sociological plot, this is the reason Conrad’s work carries its own uniqueness compared to other novels. Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and The Secret Agent are some examples where Joseph Conrad uses his psychological and sociological plots. When Conrad created the story Heart of Darkness, the story is about him and what he experience in life. He adds fiction into the novel as well. Many people believe that Conrad’s style of writing relates to society every day life. His stories describes the life we actually live. It described people actual experiences which sometimes produce in us, or in that part of us which tries to understand the world in some realistic way. Heart of Darkness gives the reader a psychological point of view in that they are receiving feedback in a conscious way such as a vision or apparition. Readers asked what’s the purpose of Conrad’s novels in stories such as Heart of Darkness? The answer is to get the reader to re-live experience in some way with all its messiness, all its darkness and doubts.

Conrad created similar characteristics like novel Heart of Darkness. One novel that can be compered to Heart of Darkness is Lord Jim. When reading Lord Jim, the reader can tell that Conrad places metaphors in his novel when describing a location from any common place. Conrad adds metaphors because he attempts to locate the contrasted parts of human nature by lavishing it with a strong fierce characteristic. Although Conrad accomplished this attempt, the primary similarity between the Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim is that both novels with men in extreme situations far from their European homes. The novel Lord Jim doesn’t have much information about the story; however, the reader can mainly use this novel to compare similarities with the novel Heart of Darkness. These two stories are a like in many ways. For example, As Conrad spent over twenty years on the sea, these twon novels take place among the waters. The Heart of Darkness started around the Thames River in London. This travel include a round trip from the Thames to the Congo once again ending again in Europ. Conrad uses legitimate and real places to portray the African area in the 1890s. But, in Lord Jim, the ship called the Patna and the island of Patusan are both fictional. He creates the ship and island with the same jungle like descriptions to serve as the main setting of Lord Jim.

As for the novel The Secret Agent, it is basically based on an actual event in a bombing attempt against the Greenwich Observatory located at Greenwich, London. The novel seems to be a satire for a good portion, but the plot of the story turns dark when it involves the conspiracy against the anarchists (Hamblin 3). In short, we realize that Conrad’s ideas and concepts are derived from intending to renew the readers with a figure reflection of the unorganized world that is viewed by Conrad himself (Dintenfass 5). Conrad’s concept is taken up with some religion in all his novels, since it is a way of observing the way Conrad revives the dark sides of his characters (Dintenfass 7). Overall, we realize that all three novels have a primary similarity; we find that they all include a portion of both fiction and reality. Conrad’s style of techniques includes his organization of his thoughts, his use of literary forms, and significant themes. His organization of thoughts illustrate that you can discover an opinionated interest in the world others have not found to say without ever capturing or understanding it (Dintenfass 7). Most of Conrad’s opinionated interest towards the world came through his mind politically and viewed on the issue of revolution (MBL 95). Conrad’s thoughts also included to move further from his experiences of travel and more into creating a fictional novel, while lacking personal adventures or feelings (MBL 97). In doing this, Conrad’s characters became to be more like himself (MBL 93). Conrad does this since he believes that the individual “enables [himself or herself] to make [their] way through the world” (MBL 94). The reason Conrad has stated this was because this is his own and only personal strong opinion towards the world that he includes in his novels. His literary form consists of three parts which includes the three-fold structure, Russian doll effect, and opposing images. The three-fold structure is explained as how the book is divided into three chapters that contain three different characters, in which the narrator comes back to state a summary and the significance of each chapter. The Russian doll effect is to be understood as form within a form--a repetition of a story around a story--being similar to when unraveling one part of a story, there is still another part to be unraveled until you are down to the end of the story line. The opposing images are the components of using all senses of the human body to have a strong understanding when reading along any of Conrad’s novels (Dintenfass 8). Furthermore, Conrad’s themes deals with alienation, breakdown of communication, and death. The theme of alienation pertains to having the character feeling as if they don’t belong in a certain resident, which usually causes dissolution throughout Conrad’s novels. Briefly, the breakdown of communication simply leads to the devastation of relationships in Conrad’s characters, which has been considered as a characteristic of a Shakespearean tragedy. Death is not a significant theme, but is needed to receive feedback from the expansion of the story line (Hamblin 4). Altogether, Conrad’s style of techniques all play a significant role no matter how minor or major the elements of his style may be. Psychological and sociological perspectives have also played a dominant part, which includes experiences in both dreams and truth, including his forms of expression in multiplicity, ambiguity, and irony. Psychologically, Conrad causes his characters to become lost in their own imagination during their dreams, usually to reveal heroism and lacking reality towards the feeling of heroism (CESNP 1276). In understanding the novel from this point of view, the reader has to solve the novel from its puzzling complexity to comprehend both the character and plot (CESNP 1277). “He is interested in life, but he does not love it; and in detaching himself as an artist entirely from life, his interest in it has actually become greater, has become interest and nothing else (TCLC 199). This simply means that if he grows away from reality, his thoughts become fulfilled with interest in creating a great novel from imagination. Sociologically, Conrad creates an atmosphere around the characters in creating two groups “of those who conquer and those who are conquered.” Uniquely, Conrad is variant from a sociologist, since he is not neutral and is scientifically disjointed from the statement made. Conrad, in other words, experiments more on the psychological side of his novels rather than on the sociological side (Dintenfass 6). As for truth in Conrad’s literature, he is known to include the truth from both the mind and the essence of encounterings “and it is these kinds of truths..that art, and art alone, can convey to us” (Dintenfass 5). In addition to this, moral ethics takes a part to make this statement clear to readers in saying that both purpose and wrong is evil, and the moral is opposite from this. In respect to Conrad’s forms of expression, he uses multiplicity, ambiguity, and irony (Dintenfass 10). Multiplicity derives from his various use of expression that deals with his experiences in both dreams and truth. In relation to this, Conrad uses symbolism to display the value of expression in his works (WLC 784). Ambiguity is pieced together when his novels take on a puzzling and complex style when uncertainty gains on Conrad’s ideas. To Conrad, this is considered a lapse of qualification, which is explained as having his ideas being held back temporarily in causing the story line to detach itself from making sense, but fortunately this doesn’t undermine his style of expression (WLC 783). Finally, irony is featured when he combines both truth and fiction. There is no telling Conrad’s experiences from the fiction in his novels to have his readers comprehend the reality from the imagination. This is the reason why readers occasionally mistaken his novels as being described as a satire at times (WLC 784). All in all, Conrad has viewed his literature as a psychologist and moralist (TCLC 199). The psychological and sociological perspective has a major purpose in Conrad’s novels, since they both make up the experiences in dreams, truth, and the forms of expression that includes multiplicity, ambiguity, and irony. In conclusion, when reflecting back at Joseph Conrad’s work, the reader will most likely realize his talent in literature writing. Conrad structured his novels primarily from his style of techniques in which his organization of his thoughts, literary form, and themes have all played a dominant part. The most significant aspect featured in his novel that has overpowered his primary structure is his use in viewing both the psychological and sociological perspective of his work. Without this included, Conrad knew his work could not be known as unique when compared to other authors’ novels. Finally, there is a comment that summarizes Joseph Conrad’s style of writing, in which it stated: “It is obvious that, while Conrad never formulated any rules, he was forever trying out new methods, hitting upon this or that new procedure, it may be, by instinct rather than by deliberation; but it was the instinct of a man profoundly concerned with method, forever on the lookout for some new way of cheating oblivion and saving his chosen art from the dry-rot of monotony and academicism.” (TCLC 199) Works Cited Brytonski, Dedria, and Phyllis C. Mendelson, eds. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 1 Detroit: Hale Research Co., 1978. Dintenfass, Mark. “Heart of Darkness: A Lawrence University Freshman Studies Lecture.” 14 Mar. 1996. *http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~csicseri/dintenfass.htm* (2 Feb. 2000). Draper, James P., ed. World Literature Criticism: 1500 to the Present. Vol. 2 Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992. Hamblin, Stephen. “Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent.”