Doubles in Literature

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"With respect to the use of "doubles," Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde share more similarities than either of those works share with Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

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"With respect to the use of "doubles," Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde share more similarities than either of those works share with Conrad's Heart of Darkness. In both Secret and Jekyll, the doubles clearly reside in one man and the doubles are clearly delineated--one good and the other evil. In Heart, on the other hand, one could make an argument that both Kurtz and Marlow have doubles within them, but in both Kurtz's and Marlow's cases those doubles are less delineated than in the main characters of Secret and Heart. Still, in both cases, the exploration of doubles finds that within each man there is a force for evil that does battle with the force for good. While the doubles advance the stories in all three cases, the more fascinating aspect of the issue is the psychological and what it shows in each story about the evil..."

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