... 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. Although The Secret Agent seems to be populated with immoral or amoral ... detaches and relates the reader to his characters, aiding us in an understanding of the moral vision of the text. In light of an understanding of Conrad's use of irony we can bega...

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