Doppelgänger

flaws that lead them into a downward spiral to ultimate demise. It is during this spiral that the reader can see how the creature's flaws mirror those of Frankenstein and how they both give in to revenge, hatred and evil, and eventually death. The doppelganger connection is produced very quickly when Frankenstein’s creature comes alive and the first emotion the two share is misery. With the death of his little brother, Frankenstein describes that, "Anguish and despair had penetrated into the…

their other evil beings, and in doing so created monsters. Unlike Mary Shelley’s monster in Frankenstein, who was formed by sewing together body parts, Dorian and Henry create monsters that divide the good and evil in their soul’s, known as their doppelgängers. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,…

classically gothic novel, it incorporates the supernatural with the realistic to create a horrific plot with deep psychological characters who’s actions question societal norms, morality and humanity. The text adopts but also adapts motifs of doppelgangers, forbidden knowledge and heroism. Shakespeare was a literary pioneer in almost every aspect and the genres of his plays were no different. In his play The Tempest,…

his reliability to come into question. The shadow that he sees move to poison Rowena assumes the role of a doppelganger, a figure resembling another person that oftentimes acts as a harbinger of bad luck. The doppelganger acts upon the narrator’s inner desires while existing as a separate entity responsible for ‘provoking’ Rowena’s eventual death. It is easily assumed that the doppelganger is responsible for Ligeia’s death in the same manner as it is responsible for…

A Nightmare on Elm Street questions the existence of a rare psychological affiliation that causes unexplained nocturnal deaths happening in seemingly healthy young adults and whether or not it is linked to a post-traumatic tension in their past that must have built fear in them. The idea behind this movie was the enigmatic deaths of healthy refugees in 1981 just three years earlier to the production of the first Elm Street film. As newspapers looked into the causes of the mysterious deaths the…

Consequently, these western ideologies in the form of oral narratives are adopted by the tribes of the deep woods and are disseminated in the form of legends, fairy tales, bed time stories the inscription of which are found on the walls but regarded as inferior to the authenticity of Phantom’s precious library and all the relics collected by the Phantomic line down through the ages. The narrative myths, the folklores, the legends of the tribes become subservient to his narratorial authority,…

Gothic doubles are common in Gothic genres and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a good example of it. A doppelgänger, which is a double of a living person, is typically known to be the evil side of a character and is an important theme in the gothic genre. One of the doppelgangers in Frankenstein is the Monster being a doppelgänger to Victor Frankenstein. Since the monster is seen doing crimes towards humanity, especially Victor Frankenstein’s family, it is an act that can be seen as important as…

He would often yearn to dive into it to cleanse himself of the responsibility of Justine and William’s death. He would wish to become one within nature because it was beautiful and calm, opposite of what Victor thought of himself, a man riddled with guilt and fear. The creature, in a similar state of loneliness and depression, wandered throughout the forest regaining “pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me…forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy” (Shelley 129).…

into one single entity which can be referred to as the mortal element, and can be seen as one half of a whole, and another, conflicting infinite component is required. It is similar to the idea of Doppelgänger, in which two parallels are required in order to depict the full, whole entity. Doppelgänger originated from German and means ‘double-goer’. It is ‘an apparition or double of a living person’ (Oxford Dictionaries, 2016). This can be seen in relation to Poe’s detective fiction through…

the reader lost sight in the narcissistic side of Hermann. His actions were covered up by the pictures created in the reader’s mind, the symbols of many objects and the portrayal of humanistic objects. Felix is introduced in Despair as Hermann’s doppelganger, or so it is to be…