Nostromo 속에 투영된 가치관 = The View of Value Projected in Nostromo

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Nostromo is more than just a historical and political novel, dealing with each individual's closely knitted fate with that of the social system and state, comprising the more philosophical dimension by its significant metaphysical investigation of the inevitable human condition, struggling between the conflicting forces of law and violence, order and anarchy, liberty and dictatorship, material interest and noble ideal. The federalist Ribiera government collapses by the Monteros' nationalist coup d'etat, and the province of Sulaco succeeds in seceding, proclaiming itself the $quot;Occidental Republic$quot; owing to the economic power of the silver mine. The materialistic richness represented by silver ironically gives rise to the revolution, the sterilization of the Goulds' marriage life, Nostromo's vanity of honor and Decoud's cynical nihilistic engagement and suicide.
Conrad's self-projection into the figures of the novel is very distinct. His respect for the values of tradition, discipline, courage and personal honor is well represented by Nostromo, the Italian supervisor of the workers. Martin Decoud, a French intellectual dilettante, disillusioned and visionary, shows the author's stressful sentiment of scepticism and historical consciousness of the imperialist cruel tactics of betrayal and exploitation. While Charles Gould, the English entrepreneur, possessed by materialistic development, reminds us of Conrad himself at one time in his economic stalemate, Doctor Monigham, crippled bodily and mentally by the former dictator's atrocious persecution, is another portrait of the self-derisive, prophetic vision of the author himself. The dramatic development of the plot is focused on the final reconciliation of the two rivals, Nostromo and Monigham, as a sign of gratitude and love for Mrs. Gould. Conrad suggests the possibility of overcoming the catastrophe and cheating a new value through Mrs. Gould's recognition about the world's depending on the poor people and her perception of the inevitable interrelatedness of history.
The strategy of this novel is in awakening the reader's imagination about human integrity and in achieving the various effects of echo by projecting the author's views of life and artistic values into the several international protagonists in the political, geographical, economical and cultural background of revolution and anti-revolution of the state of Costaguana.