The story follows a narrator who meets a family with four intellectually disabled adult children, known as the idiots, while traveling near Ploumar in Brittany, France. The story explores how the parents married and had their four children, struggling with the criticism of their neighbors who saw the children as useless. This leads to increasing sorrow, misfortune and desperation for the family. Ultimately, the mother Susan kills the father Jean Pierre in a fit of anger, before herself dying on the beach. The theme examines society's intolerance of things outside its control, like mental retardation.

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.