담론으로서의 폭파 - 콘라드의 『 밀정 』 ( The Secret Agent ) = Detonation as a Discourse - Conrad`s The Secret Agent

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This study argues that Conrad exploits the motif of `detonation` in The Secret Agent as a discourse act which challenges and questions the order of society. The narrator`s persistent inquiry into the Greenwich bomb affair is contrasted to the police investigation which suppresses the voices of anarchists. Conrad criticizes the dominant forces of the police. the press and the public for their collective efforts at silencing the outlawed and suppressed voices. The novel as Conrad`s own investigation of The Greenwich Outrage includes voices which are muted. Isolated. and regulated by the official voices of the time. The narrator seeks to restore the voices of revolutionaries, anarchists and terrorists which are classified as dangerous, contagious, and abnormal elements of society by the forces of law and order and allows them to speak. However, Conrad also warns of the monologic tendencies of the challenging voices which employ the same discourse strategies of official voices. The overall investigation concludes that the voices of law and order, ignoring the discourse implications of the detonation, dismiss it as a mere act of madness or despair. Placing various social discourses within narrative discourses of an ironic voice, Conrad scrutinises the ways in which discourses are exploited to shape the order of things in the modern capitalist society. The Secret Agent discussed in this study invites his reader to participate in an open ended inquiry into the natures of the institutionalised ideas of such as the law and order, the justice and security of society which nullify questions raised by the detonation.