In The Secret Sharer, author Joseph Conrad explores one man's journey into this self-discovery through the narrator's point of view, symbolism, imagery, and setting. ... Conrad paints a dual picture of a beautiful prison where man is trapped by the sea. ... An important symbolic quality to note is the sleeping suits the two share. ... The Secret Sharer is a story of opposites forming a whole. ... Conrad was trying to convey an important lesson with these two characters. ...

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Joseph Conrad includes a doppelganger, Leggatt, of the young Captain that many believe is a real person. His readers think that the doppelganger is a real person, but Conrad hints that the doppelganger is not a real person. In The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad, isolation and stress at sea drive the young Captain to create a fantasized character named Leggatt who is a representation of the type of person the Captain would like to be. ...

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The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer, is a novella that tells the story of a ship captain who discovers a stow away and harbors him without telling his crewmembers. ... The captain then refers to Leggat as the sharer of his room, the sharer of his clothes, the sharer of his appearance, and in some ways the sharer of his life. ... The Secret Sharer's title is of great significance in relation to the story. ... Sharing the same room, living space, clothes, and most significantly, they shared the same secret friendship. ... The Secret Sharer is a story that can be app...

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Three novels that display this parallel in themes effectively are Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer, and William Shakespeare's Macbeth. ... The social order in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer is broken by Leggatt. ... In The Secret Sharer, Leggatt shows his capacity for evil in the most evident of ways, murder. ... The second best example of the outcast theme is shown in The Secret Sharer. ... In The Secret Sharer, Leggatt kills a man, but he does this in the best interest of the ship, and to save the lives of the rest of his shipmates. ...

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Authors use diction to express the mood of the writing and how they feel about it. In The Secret Sharer and Other Stories the author, Joseph Conrad, uses diction to express an informed and descriptive feel. The use of formal language forms a trust in the author because of the intelligent mood it...

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Conrad illustrates Marlow's changing perspective in a scene involving the cannibals. ... Conrad also illustrates Marlow's growing empathy for the men he once called "savages" during a scene in which a band of followers sent by Kurtz attacks the steamboat with flying spears. ... Conrad follows the chaotic scene on the shore and the strange conversations on the steamboat with a nightmarish scene in the jungle. ...

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This particular poem is about a corsair, or pirate, named Conrad who is one Lord Byron's own Byronic heroes. ... The three Byronic characteristics that Branwell, Rochester and Heathcliff share are their want for a woman they can't have, their proneness to being moody and their dark secrets that have occurred because of their isolated travels. ... One Byronic characteristic Rochester, Heathcliff and Branwell share is their love for a woman they can't have. ... The secret keeping Heathcliff from being with his love is death, or so he assumes. ... Their want for a love that is fo...

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(Conrad 7) Within this narrative paragraph Marlow sets the tone for the rest of the novel. ... It is not only what Marlow says that makes him fit in with the solemn setting but it is also his appearance: Marlow is pointedly described as sitting in the pose of Buddha, suggesting that he has been the recipient of a weird Enlightenment, which he is impelled to share with his listeners. ... The setting causes many of the characters to go insane, " The sun was too much for him, or the country perhaps- (Conrad 80). ... (Conrad 94) Just the setting itself is so concentrated with the darkness of Kurt...

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There, like a lover rushing to a secret tryst, she encounters the mysterious Geraldine. ... Like the Secret Sharer of Conrad's tale, Geraldine is initially portrayed as an empathetic being, who having undergone duress, emotionally appeals to her rescuer.Christabel regards the woman with almost childlike awe, and her attempts at friendship often seem to echo the overtures of a child. ... When they both share the secret of Geraldine's shame, they have become one being. ...

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Coppola created this film with "ambitious effort to show Vietnam as America's Heart of Darkness, with Joseph Conrad's story providing the narrative skeleton" "(Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 1-1) and many themes, meanings, and entire scenes from the movie do in fact come directly from Conrad's book. ... As the film continues, and Willard is recruited to Vietnam to embark out on his top-secret mission to terminate Kurtz, the films rich sound mixing continues to stand forth keep the viewer dead center of the action and detail in every single scene. ... The use of fog, haze, d...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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Willard was secretly given a classified mission to kill Kurtz by a group of high-ranking army officials. ... Heck, they shared the same name. ... Heart of Darkness was somewhat broad and the modern version of it clearly did a good job in redistributing the original message told by Joseph Conrad. ...

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• Grade Level: High School