Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Can anybody name me works of literature that have twins in them?

I was thinking of doing an essay for my course on how twins are represented in literature but am finding it difficult to find many! Works on the doppelganger are also useful. Help! I already have Shakespeare's Twelfth Night %26amp; Jekyll and Hyde but few others.Can anybody name me works of literature that have twins in them?
someone mentioned Harry Potter already.. and Fred and George.. there are also another set of twins there in Parvati and Padma Patil



There are the dead twin girls in "The Shining"



Stephen King alsohas twins (kind of) in "The Dark Half" with Thad Beaumont and George Stark (if you have not read.. Stark is Beaumonts pseudonym but there is a twinship there too)



Or, Stephen King and Peter Straubs "The Talisman" and "Black House" although not about TWINS.. deals heavily with TWINNERS (2 different worlds, same person w/ similar characterisitics belonging to each world)
You can do the story of Romolus and Remus. That's really mythology, but it's still technically literature.Can anybody name me works of literature that have twins in them?
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (it's a good one, I loved Sara Louise)



Ordinary Miracles by Stephanie S. Tolan



St. Michael's Scales (Its pretty good, except the guy's twin died when they were babies; the guy blames himself for his twin's death, along with other things)



By the way, I'm a twin!!!Can anybody name me works of literature that have twins in them?
The Truth-teller's Tale



Great book. The twins are mirror twins, which means that if they look at each other, it'll be exactly like looking in a mirror. (One twin is right-handed, the other is left-handed, etc.) They both have special gifts. One has the gift of truth (she cannot tell a lie ever), and the other has the gift of secret-keeping (she can never reveal a secret).
I would like to add Harry Potter to the list. (Honestly almost everything covered in English classes can be found in those books!) Fred and George are a great pair.



The doppelganger theme fits well with a Tale of Two Cities. Duality is a HUGE part of that. There are no real twins, but Sydney Carton and Charles Darney look very much alike. (It becomes a plot point).



The Series of Unfortunate Events books feature a set of triplets. (The Quagmires) But that's not twins I guess...



It seems twins are more common in children's literature. That's odd.

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