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ID –entity: A Man or a Monster?

A motif of the double (Doppelgänger) is a literary device often used to express an experience of divided personality and explore identity issues and relationships with others. It appears in the text in the form of an invented character, a soul, a shadow, a ghost or a mirror reflection which hunts the person as its alter ego. Its variations in prose works most frequently appear as a seeming doubling of a person presented through similarity or attractiveness, and as a division of personality presented through the contrast or complementarity of the split characters which could be interpreted as different faces of a divided personality. While the imaginary power of the double derives from its bodilessness and the fact that it has always been the uncanny, its psychological power lies in its ambiguity and the fact that it can denote contrast or opposition, similarity and complementarity. This paper explores the theme of the split personality in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (1818). It is based on psychoanalytical reading and focuses on explaining the character of a Monster as Victor Frankenstein’s double or his alter ego.

the double, id, ego, super-ego, alter ego, identity

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