ジョウゼフ・コンラッド「万策尽きて」-- ウェイリー船長の失ったものと与えたもの --
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Joseph Conrad's The End of the Tether (1902) has a tendency to be dismissed as a sentimental account of the hardships and downfall of old Captain Whalley. Frederick R. Karl treats Whalley as 'a minor figure in a minor tragedy'(A Reader's Guide to Joseph Conrad Revised Edition, First Syracuse University Press, 1997). However, some critics such as Jocelyne Baines, Virginia Woolf and Daniel R. Schwarz are interested in the captain or the story, and make positive assessments of the story. In this paper I have made a study of the novella mainly in terms of Whalley's 'home' or family ties, making it clear that Whalley's downfall begins and, in a sense, ends with the death of his wife, 'a real shipmate and a true woman'. The End of the Tether is a story of losses. What the protagonist kept to the last is his love for his daughter. It means that Captain Whalley has proved his identity through his paternal love. Whalley was in his prime while he was sailing a clipper in the East and the South Seas. During this period he had everything which conduced to his happiness-his family, physical and mental strength, a large income out of trade activities far and wide, fame he got from being the pioneer of new routes and new trades, pride in never having lost a ship and so on. The passage of time, however, robbed Whalley of one treasure after another until at last he had no choice but to go down with the steamer. In this light, Whalley's whole career corresponds to the gradual decline of the British Empire in the latter half of the 19th century. The End of the Tether is a well-constructed story and offers important themes to be considered. It 'occupies a position of unique importance in Conrad's fiction' in the terms of Juliet McLauchlan, founder of the Joseph Conrad Society (U. K.).
- 2006-01-31
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