Doppelgängers in Literature Example
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Examples of Doppelgangers in Literature - Introduce students to doppelgangers with fun activities!
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- CHARACTER
- Name:
- Differences:
- Similarities:
- "A large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness"
- Wants to indulge in vices without compromising his social standing in the community
- Dr. Henry Jekyll
- DOPPELGÄNGER
- Name:
- Differences:
- Similarities:
- A little man who "stumps" along; evokes feelings of dread, fear, and a desire to kill him in others; gives a strong feeling of deformity; a murderer
- Delights in those vices
- Edward Hyde
- Name:
- Differences:
- Similarities:
- A wild fool; in charge; manipulative; a leader; a con artist
- Same name; same height; same clothes; same intellectual abilities
- William Wilson
- Name:
- Differences:
- Similarities:
- Doesn't desire to lead, only to hold narrator back; tries to guide and advise the narrator; speaks in a low voice; sense of good and bad is sharper
- Same name; same height; same clothes; same intellectual abilities
- William Wilson
- Name:
- Differences:
- Similarities:
- Kind and honest; ashamed of his family's history; honorable
- 25 years old; good-looking; sunburnt cheek; dark eyes; long dark hair
- Charles Darnay
- Name:
- Differences:
- Similarities:
- Unkempt and a bit slovenly; reckless; a disreputable look; depressed; heavy drinker; thinks he is unworthy and unable to have happiness in his life
- Young with dark hair and dark eyes; good-looking; bears a striking resemblance to Charles in court
- Sydney Carton
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