Lack of Self Knowledge in Mad Shadows

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Theme

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Quote

Explanation

(Lack of) self-knowledge

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"The

train

was

leaving

town." (Blais 15)

Journey to self-knowledge

No stopping fate, cannot get off train after it has parted until you reach your destination

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"He watched in silence and did not understand, but his idiot face was so dazzling that it made on think of genius." (Blais 15)

Silence - Patrice's idiocy, nothing behind his pretty face

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"The blond child followed indolently, his head resting against his mother's elbow." (Blais 17)

Simply follows mother, a guide leading him to vanity

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"He cried when he was told to, responded to her tenderness without knowing shy. He had never discovered anything, not even his mother's love, or Isabelle's jealousy." (Blais 18)

Lack of self-knowledge. He is an idiot, cannot discover anything about himself. Without a soul, no identity, a doll, no self.

1.1

"He was destined to know nothing but his own beauty. This he discovered." (Blais 18)

Vanity, won't make further discovery as for his self, identity, will not have a soul