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    The short story "The Lagoon" by Joseph Conrad is set in Southeast Asia in the late 19th century. It follows Arsat, a Malay man who fled with his brother and Diamelen after a war. Arsat feels guilt for abandoning his brother, and believes this led to his brother's death and Diamelen's illness. The story explores themes of remorse, stagnation, and being haunted by the past. When a European man's boat approaches Arsat's isolated home on a lagoon years later, Arsat prepares to attack, still wanting to redeem himself for his past actions.

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    The short story "The Lagoon" by Joseph Conrad is set in Southeast Asia in the late 19th century. It follows Arsat, a Malay man who fled with his brother and Diamelen after a war. Arsat feels guilt for abandoning his brother, and believes this led to his brother's death and Diamelen's illness. The story explores themes of remorse, stagnation, and being haunted by the past. When a European man's boat approaches Arsat's isolated home on a lagoon years later, Arsat prepares to attack, still wanting to redeem himself for his past actions.

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    The short story "The Lagoon" by Joseph Conrad is set in Southeast Asia in the late 19th century. It follows Arsat, a Malay man who fled with his brother and Diamelen after a war. Arsat feels guilt for abandoning his brother, and believes this led to his brother's death and Diamelen's illness. The story explores themes of remorse, stagnation, and being haunted by the past. When a European man's boat approaches Arsat's isolated home on a lagoon years later, Arsat prepares to attack, still wanting to redeem himself for his past actions.

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    The Lagoon

    By Joseph Conrad
    The
    Lagoon
    is a short story with elements of realism,
    adventure, and romanticism.

    Joseph Conrad completed the story in 1896 and


    published it in Cornhill Magazine, a
    distinguished London periodical that featured
    poems, essays, short stories, and serialized
    novels.
    "We were sons of the same
    mother—and I left him in the
    midst of enemies; but I am going
    back now. . . In a little while I
    shall see clear enough to strike—
    to strike."

    —Arsat
    01
    Setting
    The story is set in Southeast Asia (on the Malay Peninsula or in the Malay
    Archipelago) on a river flowing eastward to the ocean, on a creek flowing
    inland through dense forest, and at a small house on a lagoon.
    The action takes place in the last half of the nineteenth century after
    Europeans colonized southern Asia and after the Malay kingdoms of Wajo,
    Soping, Boni, and Si Dendring fought wars over who should succeed as
    rajah of Si Dendring. 
    02
    Charact
    ers
    The White Man Arsat Diamelen Arsat’s brother Rajah Inchi Midah
    03
    Theme
    Remorse
    Remorse and regret for abandoning his brother to the rajah's men haunt Arsat
    like the ghosts that the Malay boatmen imagine inhabit the lagoon and the
    forests around it. He believes his failure to save his brother caused Diamelen's
    illness and death. 
    03
    Theme
    Stagnation
    When the white man's boat approaches Arsat's house, the narrator says, "The
    creek broadened, opening out into a wide sweep of a stagnant lagoon." In
    describing the lagoon as stagnant (motionless, dead, inert; or putrid, foul,
    rotting), the narrator is also describing the life of Arsat and Diamelen since
    their arrival at their isolated forest dwelling. Their life together has been
    lonely, uneventful, and motionless; the fester of Arsat's guilt has poisoned
    their opportunity for a contented life just as the mosquitoes from the lagoon
    have poisoned Diamelin's veins with deadly disease.
    03
    Theme
    Selfishness
    Arsat claims Diamelen. with the help of his devoted brother, he selfishly runs
    off with her without stopping even to come to the aid of his brother.
    03
    Theme
    The Ever-Present Past
    Arsat has been unable to erase the memory of the day when he left his
    brother behind. So painful is the memory of that day and so keen is his desire
    to redeem himself that he deliberately offered up his own life when fighting
    with the white man. Arsat says, “[Y]ou have seen me in time of danger seek
    death as other men seek life! A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but
    what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!" But Arsat lives on, as
    do the ghosts of the past.
    Figures of Speech
    ● Alliteration
    Repetition of a Consonant Sound

    somber and dull, stood motionless and silent on each side of the


    broad stream.
    but her big eyes, wide open, glittered in the gloom, 
    sunset put out by the swift and stealthy shadows
    He flung his arms wide open, let them fall along his body,
    then stood still with unmoved face and stony eyes. . . .
    Figures of Speech
    ● Anaphora
    Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of word groups
    occurring one after the other

    In the stillness of the air every tree, every leaf, every bough, every tendril of


    creeper and every petal of minute blossoms seemed to have been bewitched
    into an immobility perfect and final. 

    A rumor powerful and gentle, a rumor vast and faint; the rumor of trembling


    leaves, of stirring boughs, ran through the tangled depths of the forests. . . .
    Figures of Speech
    ● Metaphor
    Comparison of Unlike Things Without Using  Like, As, Than, or As

    If the earth . . . became . . . a battle-field of phantoms (Comparison of the earth


    to a battlefield of ghosts)

    Darkness oozed out from between the trees. . . . (Comparison of darkness to an


    oozing liquid)
    Figures of Speech
    ● Paradox
    Contradictory statement that may actually be true

    There's no worse enemy and no better friend than a brother. . . 


    Figures of Speech
    ● Simile
    Comparison of Unlike Things Using Like, As, Than, or As

    If water that shone smoothly like a band of metal. (Comparison of the smooth
    water to a band of metal)

    a twisted root of some tall tree . . .  writhing and motionless, like an arrested
    snake. (Comparison of the root to a snake)
    Vocabulary
    Nipa Prau Rajah
    Palm trees of Asia with Malayan boat with a an Indian, Malay, or
    leaves that can be used to triangular sail and an Javanese ruler
    make a roof. outrigger

    Sampan Malong Tuan


     small boat with a stern- Malay garment of men and Malay term for sir or
    mounted oar used for women. It consists of a single mister
    steering length of cloth that is
    wrapped at the waist and may
    extend to the knees or ankles
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