In Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Sharer a moral can be identified that touches on the premises of finding and identifying one’s dual personalities in order to establish one’s character. Conrad’s novel explores the possibility that everyone has a binary personality and that to really be true to one’s self, they must recognize and give in to this possibility. In The Secret Sharer, the Captain, the protagonist, finds a naked …showed first 75 words of 551 total…

…showed last 75 words of 551 total…the basis of what lurks behind so-called civilization, the public and private sides of human thought. Conrad allows the reader a glimpse into his or her own duality, and brings them in touch with the side that lies dormant, waiting to be released. The Secret Sharer dictates the moral that one’s personality is created through the intertwining of two contrasting images of oneself, and the developing of a person’s character by these traits.