sandra bernardes puff - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

ABSTRACT
This dissertation intends to analyze the ―double‖ on ―A Redoma de Vidro‖, Sylvia
Plath´s only novel which was published, originally, under the pseudonym of Victoria
Lucas, a kind of alter ego of the writer. Through elements of Literature Theory in
association with the psychoanalytical critique and cultural aesthetics, the work saught
to reflect on the "double" theme and its developments: alter ego, double personality,
pseudonym, narcissism, image and reflex and some mythical elements such as the
mirror and the mask. In this way the dissertation unveils itself in three major chapters:
Sylvia Plath – Lady Lazarus´ faces, The Study on the Double and its Developments
and ―A Redoma de Vidro‖ from within: The Double on the Novel. The unveiling of
―A Redoma de Vidro‖ is marked by a symbolic process through a set of mirrors
which navigates the narrative, unfolds in subjective and metaphoric traces carefully
woven together and form this redome so well constructed by Sylvia Plath.
Key words: Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar. Double and developments. Mythical elements.