Wednesday, 8 April 2020

THE DUALITY OF MAN

Giorgio de Chirico, Ettore e Andromaca, 1950. Collezione Roberto ...

The idea of a double, or doppelgänger, in literature is a very old concept and one that has brought us many famous works throughout the ages. Doubles are typically used in literature as the kind of "evil twin" of the protagonist (as in Dostoyevsky’s The Double), however the concept can also be used to link two characters together that share the same characteristics and values (as in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway).  Read here.


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