The Secret Sharer vs Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde

The double theme

The double theme is interpreted like an exploration of two sides of the same
personality.

Robert Louis Stevensons Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Joseph Conrads
The Secret Sharer are framed in the double theme.

Dr. Jekyll is a well-respected member of the community from Edinburgh

and he is totally opposed to Mr. Hyde. They seem to be presentations of the
conscious and the unconscious mind. It seems that they are one and the same
person.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two appearances of the same man.

In The Secret Sharer, the young anonymous narrator is a ships captain

who takes on the board a fugitive by his name Leggatt from another ship. This
man has saved his own ship over a tornado but in doing so has killed a seaman.

The captain and Leggatt are of the same age and they have many things in
common. Such as the sailors training school, they attended the same elite.

The unnamed narrator refers to Leggatt as his double and his secret
self and also refers to him like he is looking in the mirror. The captain feels that
they are both strangers on board.

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