'The double in almost every case emerges as more powerful or more vital or real than the original self' Discuss the importance of the double in Borges. Make reference to at least two stories.

'The double in almost every case emerges as more powerful or more vital or real than the original self' Discuss the importance of the double in Borges. Make reference to at least two stories.

1. Relationship between Lonnrot and Red Scharlach in La Muerte y La Brujúla.

   • More Powerful and vital to the story as he spins the mystery and in addition he ends up triumphant as he ends up killing the ´original self´.

2. The Borges Doubles in El Milagro Secreto and El Sur, and to some extent La forma de la Espada.

   • Dahlmann in El Sur
   • Borges in la forma de la espada
   • Hladik in el milagro.
   • Less important than Borges as Borges wrote them into existence and therefore less powerful, or vital to their story than the author.

3. The Doubles of the Borges Doubles in el milagro and el sur.

   • Not as important as the originals as they are not real, and have now power over their own exsitence, much like how their original selves are the doubles of Borges.
   • Hladik - Kuben - Roemerstadt.
   • Bookish Dahlmann - Gaucho Dahlmann