‘Powerful beyond all question’: Catherine Crowe’s Novels of the 1840s

Heholt, Ruth

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78226-3_3

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“…Catherine Crowe in The Night-Side of Nature (1848) writes about this kind of supernatural double. Crowe believes that doppelganger is a supernatural phenomenon that takes place to warn about the loved one's death or their distress (Heholt, 2018). It was believed that doppelganger is a real phenomenon that can occur to anyone.…”

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Doppelgangers Siblings in the Kite Runner

Hanif

Shahzadi

Ali

et al. 2021

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Purpose of the study: This study analyses the novel The Kite Runner (2007) of Khaled Hosseini in the light of the concept of mirror images given by Sigmund Freud in The Uncanny (1919). Bearing in mind Freud's conjecture, this inquiry enroots some personalities who have similar features and qualities. Methodology: This study is qualitative in nature. The Kite Runner is the first hand and chief source. While the second hand include easy and magazines about The Kite Runner. By concentrating on the notion of mirroring as given by Freud in The Uncanny. The study applies the concept of doppelganger siblings on Amir and Hassan, two main characters in the novel. Main Findings: The findings show that Amir and Hassan are shown as doppelgangers of one another in this study. The two personalities have some same and some different qualities like a mirror image. This study sets Amir as Heimlich and Hassan is portrayed as Unhelmlich because Amir is rich and Hassan is poor. Applications of this study: This research contributes to the field of doppelganger literature. Novelty/Originality of this study: This study analyzes the doppelgangers in the kite runner and thus contributes to the long tradition of doppelganger in literature: The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein.

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confidence: 99%