In a good work, the characters are depicted so accurately that they seem to be real people. At the will of the author, they face difficulties, face moral choices, risk health and even life.
What if literary heroes of the past and present, who have suffered tragic failure, turned to a psychotherapist in time? Would a parenting consultation have saved the parents of King Oedipus from disaster? Would Romeo and Juliet’s story unfold differently if they were older? Maybe Dracula was not understood by those around him, and Voldemort was disliked in childhood? Does Christian Gray’s erotic fantasies in Fifty Shades of Gray indicate his lack of masculinity?
The literary critic and psychiatrist subjected some famous characters of fiction to psychological analysis in order to understand how their failures are explained, which quirks and problems are universal for everyone, and which are due to the era.
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