Daughters, death and desire in Fatal attraction, The piano and Talented Mr Ripley

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  • Naomi Segal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/an.47.1-2.31-39

Keywords:

Oedipal principle, triangulation, adultery

Abstract

The oedipal principle characteristic of the nineteenth-century novel of adultery survives into twentieth-century narrative fiction too, as exemplified in two films of the late century, Fatal Attraction (1987) and The Piano (1993). In both, a marriage is disrupted by the desire of an outsider. This article begins with that comparison, and then it turns to a third example of triangulation, The Talented Mr Ripley (1999).

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Published

16.12.2014

How to Cite

Segal, N. (2014). Daughters, death and desire in Fatal attraction, The piano and Talented Mr Ripley. Acta Neophilologica, 47(1-2), 31–39. https://doi.org/10.4312/an.47.1-2.31-39

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