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Doppelganger is a
German
term meaning
'double-goer'
, a
double of a living person.
A doppelganger haunts the
Ancient Mariner
in
Coleridge
poem.
It is a common trope of
nineteenth century Gothic
literature
The idea of the doppelganger can be interpreted in a number of ways:
it can be seen simply as
a double
, an
alternative version
of the individual concerned;
it can be seen as a
complement
, a version of the individual that possesses
different qualities and thus completes the personality
it can be seen as an
opposite
, a being that possesses all the qualities that the
individual lacks and most abhor
Victor describing the creature:
“my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me”
Dualism
is a
wider term
which
encompasses the doppelganger
but also includes a
wider range of different oppositions
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