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Abstract
Conrad’s importance in the history of the english novel most of his works deal with the theme of man against himself. The envi gronment, whether sea, exotic place or a civilized city, has a double function to isolate the character form society and the larger world of men and to act as the agent of his self - confrontation. Nature itself becomes a symbol of evil; or rather, nature and the human being appear to exist almost as mainfestations of each other. This thesis is an attempt to examine conrad’s works which depend on a number of sources. The first of these is his literary theory discussed in chapter one. For him, a novel should be a sort of literary history aiming at historical and social truth, Moreover, he sees the rules of the schools of fiction and the creeds of realism. Remanticism, and Naturalism as the chief threats to the artist’s freedom. Furthermore, he believes that the artist must create for himself a world, great or little, in which he can honestly believe using his imagination which should be rooted in responsibility, a conception of the world in moral terms that is presented indirectly through a non - didactic surface. The second source is the technique dealt with in chapter two. In order to achieve his artistic aims conrad produces new techniques and develops the old ones to suit his new ways