For many narrative gimmicks which made it be a great preamble for the writing of a novel as well as being both beguiling and perfectly in line with a period which has seen the analysis and the psychological self-analysis as one of its key points, the double theme volunteered itself.
In the 18th century, in front of the great audience, the novel establishes itself.
A century of great revolutions, a century in which, crossed by a series of trends “godchildren” of the positivism, as the Italian verists or the French naturalists, the literary question is. In a social and a behavioral model …show more content…
In a cultural context of the kind, adorned of white and black, marked by behavioral poles, an entity well distinguished by the person, the “double” is. The 2 best-known instances of the kind, the English literature offers. The first, "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" written in 1886 by Stevenson, containing in itself all of the double theme features. Where Jekyll is highlighted, Hyde is overshadowed, and there is not any overlap between the two characters: When Jekyll drinks the potion He turns into the murderer Hyde changing appearance as well. Going beyond the narrative gimmick for an instant, we get that Stevenson's vision is not encouraging.
To make Dr. Jekyll emerge by keeping Mr. Hyde overshadowed, the man's challenge is. A fantastic sight of the moralizing message of the Victorian class of the epoch, the author thesis is. In “the picture of Dorian Gray”, always in the moral perspective, but focusing on the aesthetics and spirituality, Oscar Wilde approaches the double theme. by the cult of his beauty, the protagonist "Dorian Gray" is tormented. At all the costs, continuously, He wishes he were …show more content…
A great forerunner of the twentieth-century issues, Fedor has been. In "the lookalike", a case of dissociation of the personality, he traces in his own way. Sentient to it, Jakov Petrovic is. Lives with outer eye and critical his life happenings, Jakov. He is a civil servant. So much to accomplish actions which discredit him towards his clique, Jakov deeply scornes his "lookalike". "The Lookalike" discloses copious deliberation prompts, even if it is a work Dostoevskij has reneged. Equally important is Pirandello, who is one of the best playwrights. The burdensome relationship between the man and the own ego, Pirandello expounds. And yet, in the very well-known "He was Mattia Pascal", a storyline which accompanies the main character to misplace the own consensus, Pirandello sketches. Nevertheless, to have another opportunity in Meis's counterfeit clothes, even if Pirandello deems, for the society, Meis has never born, soon will he realize. As well in "one, none and one thousand" treats the identity crisis theme.
The character Vitangelo has to some extent comprehended "the lesson" of Pascal.
Therefore, the own name, he does not try to modify, but rather the development of the own awareness, he reaches.
By realizing that himself is not one, Vitangelo spends the own