Abstract
The paper discusses how Jean Baudrillard's first order simulation applies to Joseph Conrad's short story "The Secret Sharer".

From the Paper
"Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" presents a case of first order of simulation as described by Jean Baudrillard. This appears in the relationship that develops between the narrator and a man named Leggatt who is rescued by the narrator hidden in the narrator's cabin on the ship he captains and ultimately set ashore on an island where Leggatt can be free from the pursuit of the captain of the ship on which Leggatt had killed a man. As the relationship between..."

Tags:The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad, Jean Baudrillard

Abstract
This paper takes a look at the book, 'The Secret Sharer' by Joseph Conrad. The paper focuses specifically on the character 'Leggatt'. The paper argues that 'Leggatt' is an invented, imaginary person. According to the paper, Leggatt has been invented by the captain to justify the choices he made on that first journey as captain, when he chose to reject his young self and adopt a more mature and responsible self.

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"Another important point to consider is how the story is told, with this impacting on the story. The story is narrated by the captain, looking back on his time with the ship. This reflective approach emphasizes that it is the captain's experience that is important, more so than the events themselves. Having the captain reflect on the experience also emphasizes that it was a significant event in his life. However, this reflective approach does not mean that the events have to be true. After all, they are important to the captain for what they mean to him and what they represent. This supports the idea that the events described are fictional. They are effectively a myth that the captain has invented to understand himself and how he changed on that first journey. It has been noted though, that he did not change because of what happened on the trip. Instead, it was a normal trip where the captain took on his role, assumed responsibility, and accepted full authority. The story of Leggatt is the myth that the captain has invented to explain how he changed. It is his way of reconciling what he did with a created story that turns a personal experience into a set of events that represent the experience. In this way, the captain has made his coming of age experience a literal experience that others can also understand."

Tags:sea, ship, sail, evil, character, myth

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This paper examines the story "The Secret Sharer," and presents the thesis that perhaps Leggatt and the Captain shared a portion of their identities. The paper covers the captains growth, from a young man, when he was first made captain, and some of the choices he made during these earlier years, through events that shaped and influenced his later years.

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"This story throughout showed a Captain's growth and process through his right of passage, from being an inexperienced and uncertain young man to being an in-charge ship's Captain. He learned not only how to be a captain, but also discovered who his inner self was. He learned to make moral decisions as well as decisions pertaining to the running of the ship without fear of what the shipmates would think. Although in his youth he had much more wisdom than the Captain of the Sephora who had the experience of thirty and seven years, but never became a confident man who believed in himself, because he acted as a coward and then lied about Leggatt who had witnessed his cowardice, in order to preserve his own reputation."

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This paper examines the use of narration, tone and the symbolism in Joseph Conrad's novel, "The Secret Sharer". It states that the effectiveness of the novel lies in his method of story telling, while still emphasizing the meaning beyond the story itself.

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""The Secret Sharer "by Joseph Conrad is a story with universal themes relating to human nature and the journey to find oneself that every human takes at some stage in their life. Conrad offers readers a story in the form of a series of events while keeping the emphasis on the journey these events represent. In this way, Conrad makes the universal themes clear, the story an effectively told tale communicating a theme that has universal relevance."

Tags:tone, narration, symbolism, conrad, human, nature, self

Abstract
This essay discusses and analyzes Joseph Conrad's short story The Secret Sharer. The author describes Conrad's life as a sailor and its influence on the tale. The relationship between the two main characters, the unique plot, symbolism, issues of morality and justice, and general themes are also explored. A critical review of the story concludes the essay.

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"In a discussion and analysis of Joseph Conrad's short story "The Secret Sharer" (1910), it is important to begin with a look at the author's life to better understand the foundation for the vivid details in this seaman's tale and how Conrad's personal experiences certainly influenced the language used and plot in this work. Joseph Conrad was of Polish origin and born in 1857, and he lived in Poland until he was seventeen years of age. In 1874 Conrad left Cracow for France to learn the fundamentals of seamanship and a second language. At the age of twenty Conrad moved to England with the intention of becoming an officer on British ships, and he spent the next twenty years working at sea. He soon mastered English as his third language and then became a British subject around 1886. Although a common sailor at first, Conrad advanced quickly through the ranks, became a ship's captain at the relatively young age of thirty-one, and spent three years in the Far East on a series of voyages. By the age of forty Conrad was in declining physical health and retired from the sea forever, and he worked as a popular and successful English novelist until his death in 1924."

Tags:conrad, jospeh, secret, sharer

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses that both Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers," depict law-abiding individuals who gradually come to identify with people who have violated the law. The writer looks at both works in order to examine this issue. The writer maintains that as a result of their identification with these individuals who have allegedly transgressed, the married women of Glaspell's tale and Conrad's nameless sea captain gain a new sense of identity. The writer concludes that the changes undergone by the characters in both works are both external and internal, and both are life-long changes, although the changes that take place in the Glaspell story may have greater external consequences.

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"Like "A Jury of Her Peers," Joseph Conrad's short story "The Secret Sharer" is also told in retrospect. The narrator is a sea captain who finds a man named Leggatt, drowning in the water, who seems to be his 'double,' much like the women of Glaspell's story perceive Mrs. Wright to be their double, or a physical mirror of their personal pain. Leggatt is also condemned as a murderer like Mrs. Wright, but rather than reject the fugitive, Conrad's narrator gives him a place to stay. The image of the law arises, but like the woman, the captain has already experienced a kind of internal, moral shift. Like the woman the captain cannot bear to morally condemn the murderer, or reveal the fact that Leggatt is on his ship when the authorities arrive. Captain Archbold wants to act according to the law, like the men of the Glaspell tale, but Leggatt's protective captain pretends the ship is empty and points out that Leggatt's actions helped save the ship during a storm."

Tags:sea, captain, murderer, law-abiding, kinship

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At the helm of a nameless ship, a young man referred to only as Captain, over-comes the challenges of his first command when he meets face to face the darker side of self within a fugitive he secretly rescues from the dark night sea. The paper shows that in "The Secret Sharer", Joseph Conrad explores the insecurities of a young sea captain who feels not only a stranger to the ship and its crew, but to himself. The story takes place in the late 19th century aboard a merchant ship in the Gulf of Siam, a lonely and isolated area of the world, which Conrad uses to help accentuate the Captain's own feelings of isolation and uncertainty. The paper explains that the major theme of Conrad's story is the conflict between obeying societal laws and yielding to instinctual survival decisions, law verses outlaw. The Captain sees within the fugitive, Leggatt, a part of himself yet unexplored. The paper concludes that Leggatt becomes a catalyst for the Captain in his search for the courage to take command and responsibility of not only his ship, but life itself, thus, his rescue of Leggatt becomes the rescue of himself.

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"Symbolically, both are outcasts, Leggatt from society due to his crime, and the Captain from his command due to his self-doubt. The Captain feels such an affinity for Leggatt that he hides him in his cabin, sharing his food, his clothes, and even his bed. He also shares his secret feelings of doubt and inadequacy, thus, bonding on a psychological and spiritual level with Leggatt. They become simpatico, communicating more with eye contact and gestures than words, causing the Captain, the narrator of the story to express, "What could I tell him that he did not already know? (Conrad 1997)" The Captain even deludes the skipper of the Sephora when he comes aboard looking for Leggatt, the Captain's secret sharer, and it is then that the urgency to plan Leggatt's escape befalls them."

Tags:Sephora, Koh-ring

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This paper describes that in the use of "doubles", Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde" are more nearly similar than either of those works are like Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". The author points out that in both "Secret" and "Jekyll", the doubles reside in one man and the doubles are clearly delineated, one good and the other evil, but in "Heart" both Kurtz and Marlow have doubles within them.The paper explains that the psychological issues of the uses of doubles in the three works are twofold: How is it that a man comes to be made aware of the evil within himself, and how does he respond when that confrontation takes place?

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"Conrad's The Secret Sharer is easily the most complex of the three stories, for it can be taken as the portrayal of both the double externalized and internalized. Clearly, in either case, Leggatt is meant to be the evil side of the young captain. The captain is kin to Marlow in that both set off on a journey, internally and externally, in relative innocence, and both end up far more aware of the evil in the world."

Tags:good, evil, externalize, internalize, psychological

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The paper discusses that these three stories shed light on the subject and technique of contrast and irony in their own unique manner: "The Kiss" by Anton Chekhov focuses on contrasting emotions, "How to Tell a True War Story"by Tim O'Brien deals with duality of thoughts and "The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad draws our attention symbolically to contrasting sides of one person. The paper author believes that these stories help us understand that nothing in this world is static and thus emotions, people and thoughts can be highly unpredictable.

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"Similarly, in another short story titled, "How to Tell a True War Story", by Tim O'Brien, we come across another type of contradiction. This contradiction deals with conflicting thoughts that emerge in the head of a soldier who has witnessed the brutality of a war. The author wants us to know that even one static experience can generate a wide range of conflicting emotions and thoughts. The death of Curt Lemon on the battlefield is that one unchangeable experience which gives rise to many moving, evolving and changing emotions. These emotions are at times poignant while at others they reveal a different aspect of war and thus become slightly positive in nature. "

Tags:character, psychological, emotion, character, unperdictable

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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..."