Exposé VEGA Elodie Living in double life Faust, doppelganger, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde...

Who is Faust ? Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.

The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. "Faust" and the adjective "Faustian" imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term.

Good to remember that Dorian is suffering from split personality,about schizophrenia which divides the figure into two. ● Faust is bored and depressed with his life as a scholar. After an attempt to take his own life, he calls on the Devil for further knowledge and magic powers with which to indulge all the pleasure and knowledge of the world.

● The Devil will claim Faust's soul, and Faust will be eternally damned. The term usually stipulated in the early tales is 24 years, one year for each of the hours in a day. ● The similarities and differences between Dorian Gray and Faust : ● Dorian Gray, like Faust, sold his soul to Lord Henry Wotton, who represents the Devil. ● But, Dorian sold his soul in exchange of Beauty for ever instead of Faust who sold his soul in exchange of knowledge and magic powers.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : ● Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a short novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in January This is a rewrite, the first manuscript was destroyed by the wife of the author who considered him a quire full of utter nonsense. ● The work tells the story of a notary, Gabriel John Utterson who investigates the strange relationship between Edward Hyde and Dr. Henry Jekyll.

● Dr. Jekyll, a philanthropist obsessed with his dual personality, develops a drug to separate his good side from his evil. It is the latter who, night after night, eventually will take over and transform into monstrous Mr. Hyde.

Dorian's double life typical of Victorian society : Dorian's double life typical of Victorian society : ● The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s novel, published in 1890 (revised in 1891) and written in the context of the Victorian era. The novel is fantastic, but also philosophical, and highlights the ambiguous character of the Irish dandy and the current decadent.

Lord Henry Wotton is the representation of dandyism, ie the opposite of Victorian morality.It is emphasized that affected his elegance and his insolent casualness are a way of being a dilettante, who opposes, during much of the nineteenth century bourgeois taste prevailing in the Victorian high society.

Doppelganger... ? ● The doppelganger theme invites us to interpret the story psychologically. Dorian may be suffering from autoscopia and divided or multiple personality disorder. The prototype for this is Narcissus, and arguably Dorian is a narcissist of the first order. He wants to preserve his youth at all costs. He loves the image of himself as a youth and can't love anyone else. This may be why his quest for experience is doomed to be unsatisfying. The selfish man is unable of real empathy, of real identification.

● Litterally meaning « double-goer », the term ''doppelganger'' is used often to describe someone that looks just like another person, but there are more mysterious and sinister roots than the word suggest. ● So what are Doppelganger ? No one is certain. Many scientists believe the phenomenon to occur based on injuries or stimulation to certain parts of the brain wich cause errors on spatial reasoning. ● Doppelgangers are often seen as bad omens. In many circumstances, the doppelganger shows up during or soon after tragic events, such as in the case of Vice-Admiral Sir Georges Tryon of Victorian-era London. ● He was seen by multiple guests at a party at his home, simply standing and staring ahead silently, on the same night that he died at sea.