Who is Alfred Borden from The Prestige and what is their importance? The_Prestige English & Literature Alfred Borden | The Prestige

Alfred Borden is a magician, also known as Le Professeur de Magie, who has a secret to his greatest trick. This is a secret he both wants to and is afraid to share. His secret is eating away at him. He has also a longstanding rivalry with another magician, named the Great Danton, or Rupert Angier. Borden begins a journal-style book, noting that it is for himself rather than to be printed for the masses. Through the book, Borden begins to reveal his secret that is eating at him, but he also reverts to a disturbing and disjointed compilation of fighting with himself in written word.