split personality disorder, The tell-Tale heart, Insanity versus rationality, Film representing split personality, Aparichit, Deewangee, symbolic meaning of split personality, two faced people, political discourse, advertisement

1. Hema Goswami
Sem 3
Paper no. 10 -The American Literature
Submitted to Department of English
MKBU
Enrollment No. 2069108420180020
Roll no. 13
Email Id.
hemagoswami474@gmail.com
Year- 2017-19

2. About Split Personality
• People with split personality disorder feel like they are
alternating between identities.
• They may feel like there are multiple voices trying to take
control in their head.
• They often refer to their other identities as personality states,
alters, parts, etc.

3. The Tell-Tale heart
• In this story the narrator creates a contradiction
within himself.
• During day time he is different, and during night
time he is different.
•During day time he is too much caring person,
cares for that old man whom he wish to kill at
night because of his vulture eye.
•He hates the one vulture like eye of an old man.

4. Insanity versus Rationality
Rationality
• At one side the narrator protects his
sanity by detailing the extreme
acuteness of his senses.
"I heard all things in the heaven and
in the earth. I heard many things in
hell. How, then, am I mad?"
Insanity
• On the other side he describes
his exact nature with which he
went about committing that
crime
“If still you think me mad, you will
think so no longer when I
describe the wise precautions I
took for the concealment of the
body. First of all I dismembered
the corpse. I cut off the head
and the arms and the legs."

5. Films representing
Split personality
Deewangee
Character name
Tarang has split
personality
disorder.
Aparichit
Character
name Ambi
has split
personality
disorder

6. Simmilarities between Aparichit and The tell-
tale heart
• During Day time the narrator is
innocent
• At night the narrator show his evil
side
• The narrator wish to kill the Old man
• During day time Ambi was innocent
• At night Ambi shows his danger and
killer look
• Ambi wish to kill the cruel and
corrupt person
Both presents the common archetype of day and night, light and darkness.
Something good represented by light and evil by darkness, accordingly the
characters change their personality.

7. If we think out of box then we get another symbolic
meaning of Split personality
• Merely considering it as
disorder is not the fair way
of looking.
• “Two faced people with one
identity……are more
dangerous than ghost”

8. “Being nice to people is not called two faced,
it’s called growing up… but being nice to people
in-front of their face and spreading nasty talks
behind them is called TWO FACED”

9. Advertisement of Snickers
Farcical way of looking
at Split personality
disorder
Profit of big
companies
Showing to face of a
cricketer
Satire on cricketers

10. Split personalities in Politics
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11. Works Cited
editors of weebly. The Tell-Tale Heart. <https://the-tell-tale-heart-
coyne.weebly.com/dual-personality.html>.
jena, Jagabandhu. Two faced people. 13 april 2016.
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-faced-people-one-identity-more-
dangerous-than-ghost-jena/>.
Rosenberg, Shannon. 27 Things People With Dissociative Identity Disorder
Really Want You To Know. 7 october 2017.
<https://www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosenberg/heres-what-its-actually-
like-to-live-with-dissociative>.
The Economic Times. Khaas Cartoons on aam Aadmi Party. 2014 January
21. <https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/nation-
world/khaas-cartoons-on-aam-aadmi-party/whats-the-grape-
vine/slideshow/29146149.cms>.