Both Conrad and Joyce can be designated as colonial modernists, as the modernity of their texts represents the nationality of Poland and Ireland, which was suppressed by the colonial rule of Russia and Britain, respectively. In Conrad`s and Joyce`s text, the individual is equivalent to the nation or the traditional community-the individuality of which is shackled by colonization. In this respect, the conflict narrated in Conrad and Joyce between the individual and the community, both in struggle, signifies the conflict within the colonized nation between its ideal-or national consciousness-and its reality. The conflict is resolved when the idealistic protagonist recognizes and integrates the colonial reality into a new reality of nation. Conrad and Joyce, thus, aspire for the creation of a new reality, or at least, the recognition of colonial reality throughout their narratives. In Conrad`s narrative, the strongly idealistic protagonist who struggles with the reality of "darkness" represents, though symbolically, the radically democratic ideology of the Polish Republic fighting with its autocratic reality. With the reality of Eastern autocracy being unacceptable and the ideal of Western democracy having failed, Conrad`s heroes who deny the reality are doomed, which ironically endorses the reality and potentially suggests hope for the Polish nation. In Joyce`s narrative, on the other hand, the protagonists, such as the poor artist Stephen and the Jewish advertising-man Bloom, embody the reality of colonial Ireland as much as its national consciousness, which is yet to be created. In other words, Joyce accepted the colonial reality, from which he created the "conscience" or consciousness of the Irish race that had never been a sovereign nation, unlike Conrad`s Poland. Joyce`s Bloom, who integrates the Jewish individual consciousness and Irish communal reality, personifies a vision of the Irish nation.