Reflecting the doppelgänger.

• Main Author: Lam, Xue Ying.
• Other Authors: Angela Anne Frattarola
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44325
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In many literary works, madness is represented as a repercussion of psychological tensions, expressing itself in ways that appear harrowing and distressing. One such manifestation is that of the ‘uncanny’ figure of the ‘double’ – an outward expression of the repressed ‘other’, also prominently known...