DuBois, the ‘Other’ in existentialist literature and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and in many other philosophies. The ‘doubles’ theme also appears in the ‘double consciousness’ of W.E.B. Think for instance of Plato and Aristotle’s use of the idea of mimesis – artistic creation understood as the re-presentation of nature. The idea of doubles is a recurrent trope of fiction, which has taken basic problems of reality and appearance from the very start of philosophy. Critics have pointed out how in The Force Awakens Rey doubles for Luke Skywalker, Finn – as both comic relief and a source of moral ambiguity – doubles for Han Solo, and once again we have a wise, short, and comically odd character in the form of Maz Kanata ( cf Yoda). The internal mythology of Star Wars rests on a kind of dualism, with the dark and light sides of the Force, but Episode VII also deals with a lot of doubles.
Luke Skywalker image © 20th Century Fox 1977 Seeing Double
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