"Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad

Critical Analysis of the, "Secret Sharer"
In 1890 Joseph Conrad visited Africa, where he got the inspiration for a book he wrote later in 1907 called the Secret Sharer. Years later, Albert Guerard wrote an ethical review, analyzing the book as a psychological study of self identification. Through out the years, scholars would argue that Leggatt was a just a figment of the Captain's imagination.
"The story is a drama of consciousness and conscience, symbolic explorations of inward complexity." Albert wrote these words to prove the jour…