DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2022.v10i12.006

Pages: 567-572

This article studies the diverse manifestations of individual heroism inscribed in a more general framework which is epic as a genre and a text. The itinerary leading the hero from his community to a complete solitude is then brought in a critical relationship with the established order as well as the unknown in nature. In forms of rites of passage and real-life tests, the ordeals consecutive to the self-marginalization of Arsat do inform on his individual courage, and particularly on the permanent duel between man and his vital environment. Taking nature for a set of ecological elements in constant interaction with the solitary, the exotic and even the indigenous subject presented in “The Lagoon”, the current study unveils both the satiric and ironic sense of epic in the Conradian hero.