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This paper analyzes the cultural interpretations and influences surrounding the doppelganger in Nabokov's Despair. Also, it investigates psychological consequences, symbolic significance, and literary techniques used by Nabokov in Despair by examining the protagonist's fragmented identity and the role of the doppelganger as a commentary on society and human nature. The doppelganger subject takes a prominent stage in Despair, crafting a complicated story that dives into the depths of identity, perception, and self-deception. Nabokov's Despair presents a main character who finds himself confronted by his own doppelganger and has no idea how or why this mirror image of himself has appeared. The doppelganger will live its own life; the two characters will show that they are somehow the same person. They share the same identity, live the same life, and have the same personality traits. This study investigates the motivations for a person's use of a second personality and how the double personality allows him to escape his distressing world. In the light of psychoanalysis, the researcher analyzes the main character and the author's personality, which is mostly the reflection of his protagonist. The doppelganger is an alter ego that some critics believe to have other points of view different from those of the character in the story of the novel; hence, the conflict arises between this alter ego and the original.
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