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Leggatt As An Independent Character In Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer"
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This essay examines Leggatt as an independent person, rather than as a
symbol connected to the captain-narrator, a view shared by many critics.
Leggatt is not a negative influence on the captain per se. From an objective
point of view, it can be seen that Leggatt's portrayal depends entirely on h ....
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get off scot-free in court. The captain describes Koh-ring as "a towering black
mass like the very gateway of Erebus," (Conrad 193) Erebus being the cavern
through which the souls of the dead entered Hades' world (Watts 134).
Leggatt and the captain discover soon after they first meet that they
are both "Conway boys," that is, as cadets, they served as crew on the training-
ship the Conway, which is moored in the Mersey at Liverpool (Conrad 146). In
this novel, the Conway serves as "a .... |
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