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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelGeneral awareness of the tragic has become fundamental
to man's awareness of reality. Joseph Conrad believes that
tragedy is natural to happen to every man's life, that man
is merely led to frustration and death. It is a test of
manhood whether a man is able to live in the world full of
ordeals. Tragedy usually deals with a protagonist caught in
sharp conflicts with opposing forces. In the ensuing
struggle, he suffers greatly and moves from good fortune to
misfortune, never in the opposite direction. The central
character, Almayer, in Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly, has
to undergo external and internal conflicts. Due to his
conflicts Almayer suffers from a great loss materially and
spiritually. For this reason, Almayer is apt to tragedy. The
real interest of this study lies in how Almayer could
experience conflicts and in what result his conflicts
finally lead him to. In analyzing the novel, the thesis
writer is going to use the theories of tragedy, conflict,
and characterization, to learn the reasons of the conflicts,
the evidence of the conflicts, and the consequences of the
conflicts. The study finds out that tragic flaws, social
forces, and fate help produce Almayer's conflicts; and these
conflicts lead him to disintegration and death. Almayer's
failure in life is proceeded by his existence as an
individual who lives with his particular personalities among