The Double Life of Malory's Lancelot du Lake

Arthuriana | December 1, 2007| | Copyright

Lancelot, Malory's paragon of chivalry, harbors a defiant alter-ego first evident only through double adversaries, but later erupting in violent action generally repressed by the chivalric code. Through this dark Other, Malory develops his hero's subjectivity as he interrogates fifteenth-century knighthood. (JJ)

The double as a literary phenomenon suggests complexity of character or, more specifically, the coexistence of opposing qualities or views within a character. The double may be a split personality, like Robert Lewis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, where opposing personalities ...

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