Essay Archive - The Secret Sharer: A Summary
The Secret Sharer: A Summary
The Secret Sharer written by Joseph Conrad, centers around a
character of a sea captain. Its title and opening paragraphs forecast a
story of mystery, isolation, duality, darkness and silence. The novel
proves true these predictions reveling thematic and image patterns directly
proportional to them. The opening of the novel further reveals dialectics
in the novel. The clash between the private and the public world or man
versus society, in other words is the primary dialectic. The journey theme
or the rite of passage theme also reveal themselves. We see a young and
inexperienced capt....
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