Literary notes about duplicity (AI summary)
Literary authors frequently invoke duplicity to underscore the inherent contradiction between appearance and reality. Often, characters steeped in falsehood expose a dual nature that is as deceptive as it is fascinating—whether it is the biting critique of feigned affection in early short fiction ([1]), the moral ambivalence echoed in Austen’s commentary on human motives ([2], [3]), or the deliberate self-contradiction admitted as a purposeful strategy in Dostoyevsky’s narratives ([4]). In all these instances, duplicity serves as a powerful lens through which the dark undercurrents of human behavior and societal hypocrisy are brought into sharp relief.