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The Demon Lover Essay

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How do our experiences shape our both growth and identity of human beings? In “The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen the setting is London in the 1940s. The city is damaged by German bombings from World War II, this dark setting influences the themes presented in the short story. In “The Secret Sharer” by Joseph Conrad the setting is on a boat in the Gulf of Siam, which is now present day Gulf of Thailand. Both authors explore growth, deterioration, self-identity through character conflicts. Although the progression of characters through self-identity plays a central role in both Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer and Bowen’s “The Demon Lover”, Conrad illustrates the growth of a person comes from connecting and finding a true self-identity while Bowen …show more content…

Hoffman makes this conclusion when he states, “Leggatt, both in his identity as the captain's "double" and in his own story, is the objective dramatization of the captain's secret self," (Hoffman 1). In other words this is saying, Leggatt, is a double of the Captain and in his own identity. The purpose of Leggatt is to dramatize the Captain's original self identity. Hoffman proves the captain is a double of Leggatt. The use of Leggatt is to show how weak the captain's original self-identity is. Then later by comparison of Leggatt the reader sees the captain's dramatic growth. A person can grow more effectively when they have advice from a mentor or examples and experiences from other lives. These examples can bring out realizations to the person. All people need to have examples in lives to show them how they should conduct themselves. In this case Leggatt is the example for the Captain to follow. Once the captain's follows Leggatt's example and reflects to make it his own Leggatt is no longer essential to the Captain's

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