In this respect to discover the colouring of The Secret Agent's moral universe the reader must explore the attitude that Conrad takes to the society he represents in the text by means of his authorial interventions as an impersonal narrator, by his treatment of the consequences of each of his character's actions and by the descriptive sybolism of the world he creates, the interplay of these factors resulting in some kind of moral conclusion. ... However, for a novel that contains so many humanitarians there seems to be very few examples of what we would call moral behaviour. ... Ste...

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