Interview with a Friend on the Uncanny and Doppelgängers
For this blog post I thought it would be interesting and fun to interview my best friend Averie Palmer and get an insight on her experiences and thoughts on doppelgängers and doubles as a young woman. Our conversation went as follows: What was your first experience with the doppelgänger? “I think Coraline must have been my first experience seeing or understanding what a doppelgänger is.” (referring to the other mother and father/other world in Coraline) And what were your initial feelings about doppelgängers or doubles? “I thought they were cool at first because it’s a new concept, but then it turned scary to me because I realized they don’t have the same thoughts or feelings [as their original]... they are from a different reality so it’s a different person.” Averie then inserted some of her own thoughts about doppelgängers into the conversation saying, “doppelgängers are inevitable though because there are seven billion people in the world there has to be people who look exactly a