The idiots.

1. THE IDIOTS
BY: JOSEPH CONRAD

2. CHARACTERS
• Narrator: INDERECT
• Driver: INDERECT
• Jean Pierre : DIRECT
• Jean Pierre`s wife:DIRECT
• Jean Pierre`s father :INDERECT
• Madame levaille :DIRECT
• The marquies: INDERECT
• The idiots: DIRECTS

3. SETTING
• NEAR PLOUMAR

4. PLOT
• EXTERNAL CONFICT: beacuse of ther useless children.
• EXPOSITION: the story begins along the rood treguier to kervanda when the narrator met the idiots.
• RISING ACTION: it is explained how the idiots` parents got married and had their 4 children
• CLIMAX: Sorrow misfurtune, and desperation became the idiots main trouble when receiving the
critigue about their useless children from their neighbors, and even their own family.
• FALLING ACTION: Jean Pierre angrily aproches Susan and she killed him with scissors.
• RESOLUTION: Susan goes down the beach delirious where eventually falls and died.
• POINT OF VIEW: third person
• THEME: Impotence, intolerance againd God`s will and perception of mental retardation.