Moby Dick compared to Secret Sharer

In the novel The Secret Sharer, by Joseph Conrad, a man at sea struggles with loneliness and moral dilemma. However, the narrator has saved himself on multiple levels by the end of the novel. His confidence grows as he learns about himself, as well as when he learns of Leggatt, a man much like him. Throughout the novel, Conrad uses symbolism and the thoughts of the protagonist in order to suggest that one must know …

…crew and is no longer a stranger to the ship, the crew, and more importantly himself. In the story of Moby Dick we can see that the captains obsession had taken over his mind. He had been drawn to this whale so considerably that the whales death had forced the death of Ahab. They were both doppelgangers each presiding a piece of each other where they were to die as one on the high seas.