International Journal of New Developments in Education, 2020, 2(2); doi: 10.25236/IJNDE.2020.020220.
Huawei Li
Shenzhen Hongshulin Foreign Language Primary School, Shenzhen 518102, China
Since the publication of Conrad’s The Secret Sharer, critics have interpreted it from the perspective of psychoanalysis, initiation story, gender study, and new historicism. This essay focuses on covering the reason of the captain’s harboring Leggatt a murderer on Sephora. The essay explains the reason of the captain’s reckless harboring from the perspective of double narrative.
Double narrative, Homosexuality, Conrad, The secret share
Huawei Li. The Double Narrative in the Secret Sharer. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2020) Vol. 2 Issue 2: 92-94. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2020.020220.
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