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A range of anarchist perspectives is reflected in The Secret Agent: some, like The Professor, favor violent revolutionary tactics. Others, like Michaelis (who may have been based on the Russian philosopher Peter Kropotkin) reject violent measures, instead focusing on helping society evolve to adopt an economic system based on mutual cooperation ...
- Chapter 1
After Verloc and Winnie got married, Winnie’s mother gave up...
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Mr. Adolf Verloc, a shopkeeper in his forties, heads out...
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Due to high-profile assassination attempts against heads of...
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Get everything you need to know about Anarchy, Terrorism, and Corruption in The Secret Agent. Analysis, related quotes, theme tracking.
- Anarchism
- Greenwich Bombing
- Realism Meets Modernism
The Anarchist Movement (1870–1940) flourished in Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Anarchists rejected the idea of being ruled by a government and rebelled against growing nationalism. In the 1800s European kingdoms began to consolidate into nation-states and standardized language, culture, and government. Anarchist groups found...
The terrorist incident in The Secret Agentwas inspired by an actual event that occurred in London in 1894. On February 15 an explosion occurred in Greenwich Parkin the afternoon near the Royal Observatory. Authorities at the scene soon discovered the mortally wounded Martial Bourdin (c. 1868–94) and transferred him to the hospital. Evidently the bo...
Realism emerged in the mid-19th century and dominated artistic expression until the 1900s. This new trend in literature rejected the fantastical style of the Romantic period. Realist writers endeavored to illustrate life as it really was rather than in an idealized form. However, the plight of modern industrialized living fostered a feeling of disi...
Jul 19, 2017 · Abstract. This chapter will examine Conrad’s anarchist critique of capitalism in The Secret Agent through the rhetoric of vegetarianism, meat eating and metaphorical cannibalism. In considering the symbolic meaning of the natural diet I will look at the opposing forces of anarchy and capitalism within the context of Promethean mythology ...
- Kim Salmons
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- 2017
Oct 8, 2016 · In order to explore the contemporary context of Conrad’s novel, the commentary on the bombing at the heart of The Secret Agent is explored here through press accounts of the event in popular newspapers, accounts from anarchist sources (with a focus on the Nicoll pamphlet), and finally an “anarchist” perspective in the debut novel, A Girl ...
- David Mulry
- 2016
Some Real-Life Models and Sources for The Secret Agent; Character Real-life Models Literary Source; Verloc: H. B. Samuels, a supposed anarchist but in reality a police informer, and the architect of the Greenwich Outrage ; for that he, like the novel’s Verloc, hatched to provoke an anti-anarchist backlash); A. Coulon, a secret agent and police informer planted among London’s anarchists ...
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The Secret Agent. was inspired by an anarchist attempt made on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. The 'Author's Note' states "This book is that story, reduced to . manageable proportions, its whole course suggested and centred around the absurd . cruelty of the Greenwich Park explosion." Conrad, lived in London at that time,
