James Hogg went so far as to stage himself in the epilogue scene, thus making us constantly oscillate between the Gothic and satire. Even the editor of the story turns out to be unreliable, as are the many characters who appear as witnesses. The editor’s version aims to be objective, while that of Robert is presented as the testimony of a madman, but neither version of the story is consistent. The devil masquerades as Robert’s double, exacerbates his religious fanaticism until Robert kills his own brother George and finally commits suicide. These two narrators tell us a story, set in the 18 th century, of the devil appearing to a young man, Robert, who is indoctrinated by antinomian beliefs popular in 18 th-century Scotland. Il y a dans la somme d’un et un quelque chose qui n’existe ni dans l’un ni dans l’autre, le plus sans doute, et qui veut qu’un plus un fassent trois, de sorte que de l’opposition de Jekyll et Hyde naît l’Indifférent.ġPublished in 1824, Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg, offers two versions of the same story, the first by an editor and the second by the protagonist.
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