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While not to the extentoftheparanoid,delusionalschizophreniathat
Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin suffers, in manyways,thenovel”TheDouble”
(Dostoyevsky, 1997) mirrors the social and moral attitudesofitsauthor,
FyodorMikhailovichDostoyevsky. Someoftheseattitudescome from
Dostoyevsky’s life experiences.Theseviewshetransmittedthroughhis
work. This essay will show that theauthor’sprotagonistGolyadkinisa
metaphorical struggle for Dostoyevsky’s soul andalsothedichotomythat
was Russia.It is a struggle to find an identity.Andeventhecreation
of a multiple personalities still leaves us looking.
Without delving into a summary of the novel, consider only Golyadkin’s
character. He is hardly the physicalAdonis-likespecimenthatwesee
heroes of novels, even if they are tragic heroes.He is slim of build. He
is balding.He is also miserly.He hoards away his money from hisjobas
a clerkinaRussianorganization. Heistheveryepitomeofthe
apparatchik.As for his emotions, Golyadkin is pathologicallyshy. Every
attempt at contact with another person ismetwithanalmoststupefying
hesitancyâ€"irrespectiveofwhethertheyarehisseniorsorinferiors.
Golyadkinismoreadeptatworkingoutproblemsand conversational
scenarios in histhoughts.Whiletryingtoarticulatinghisthoughts,
Golyadkin stumbles, hems and haws: so much so that he presents himself asa
perfect nincompoop and hence the objectofderisionandtheepitomeof
clumsiness. He is thoroughly unsocial.He abhors anykindofunnecessary
contact with others.He actually defendsthisanti-socialbehavior. He
mistakenly believes that he is happy in hisstateofsolitarybliss.He
considers it below his dignity to “bow and scrape.”
One might suppose t…