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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: stage play; and yet she had caught herself looking at him with
bated breath as at a great actor on a darkened stage in some
simple and tremendous drama. He extorted from her a response to
the forces that seemed to tear at his single-minded brain, at his
guileless breast. He shook her with his own struggles, he
possessed her with his emotions and imposed his personality as if
its tragedy were the only thing worth considering in this matter.
And yet what had she to do with all those obscure and barbarous
things? Obviously nothing. Unluckily she had been taken into the
confidence of that man's passionate perplexity, a confidence
provoked apparently by nothing but the power of her personality.
The Rescue |
