ENGL 214 Final: final exam review
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Genre spy-fiction : joseph conrad"s the secret agent (1907) was a more serious look at espionage and its consequences, both for individuals and society. It includes a close study of a small group of revolutionaries and their terrorist plot to blow up the. The result is failure and a series of personal tragedies. Summary: the secret agent, published in 1907, is an anachronism in the works of an author usually possessed by an urge to portray grim naval existence and the horrors of reality in a harrowing and serious manner. It is often extremely funny, albeit in a very dark way. It concerns a group of spies and anarchists who meet in the soho shop of verloc unbeknown to his wife winnie who married him mainly to look after her simple younger brother stevie. Verloc s acquaintances are not joined by a shared vision but by their political fanaticism.
