Nostromo is an incomer, Italian, but for him wealth is not the major motivation instead he wants to be respected, for his character, integrity and courage.
All the major characters in the book, and in Sulaca, are foreigners either by birth or heritage, while the indigenous natives are relegated to being poor helpless pawns and onlookers.Ĭostaguana is apparently based on Colombia, but in terms of its political identity, it could be any one of a number of Southern or Central American, or even African states who were colonised and their people and natural resources exploited. The major capital investment in the mine comes from America but neither Britain or Spain escape Conrad's scorn, Gould is English, and Spain, through its historical economic control of the continent.
Set around the turn of the 19th/20th century, this novel looks at the destructive nature of economic colonisation by capitalist nations on those countries whose resources they exploit whilst taking no responsibility for the impacts of their actions. An accident as he is leaving port means Nostromo has to hide the silver on an island in the bay whilst he returns to the town to take on yet another perilous mission. However, other voices in Sulaca have another suggestion- break up the nation and set up an independent state with the mine at its heart.Īs forces of the leader of the latest revolution converge on the town, Nostromo, the incorruptible and indispensable “Capataz de Cargadores” is asked to take a lighter loaded with the latest shipment of silver offshore so that the revolutionaries won’t get hold of it. When yet another political revolution brings down the Government of President Ribiera, Gould’s initial inclination is to shore up the tottering regime. Located just outside the coastal town of Sulaco, in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, the silver mine of San Tomé is a source of great wealth for its English owner, Charles Gould, the local economy and the Costaguanan government in the way of bribes. Our daily work must be done to the glory of the dead, and for the good of those who come after."
"for life to be large and full, it must contain the care of the past and the future in every passing moment of the present.
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