English 2017 Lecture Notes - Dorian Mode, Gender Role, Cross-Dressing
8 Mar 2014
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If you think of that double and how it has been transformed in our time, the most distinctive feature is that the modern double is not particularly menacing. If you look at all the super hero films you have the same basic patter mediocre almost loser person who is completely indistinct able from everyone else and that person transforms into the glamorous superhero: eg. Harry potter average and then turns out to be a wizard when he goes to: relates to the idea that we may appear ordinary but deep within us there are school powers that can be tapped. Why superhero films can be so powerful: with jekyll and hyde you see process of domestication, instead of double being terrifying and demonic the devil has become a force for good. Peter parker works for the good of his city: the idea of a double s menacing virtually disappears from pop culture, there are some remnants.
