A Mirror Has Two Faces Connecting with Our Animal Nature in
A Mirror Has Two Faces: Connecting with Our Animal Nature in
James Dickey's novel Deliverance
I remember watching nature shows on television and
seeing natural predation. There on the screen lions stalk,
chase, kill, and eat their prey. A true vision of animal
nature. Humans are also animals, therefore, possessing
animal nature. This animal nature can be witnessed every
fall as thousands of hunters across the United States forge
into the woods to stalk, kill, …
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…on life. Ed
doesn't have the same fascination for wild things as he once
did because he found his wildness, his animal nature, "I
still loved the way she looked, but her gold halved eye had
lost its fascination. Its place was in the night river, in
the land of impossibility (277)." Ed is now complete with
his two halves, human nature and animal nature, he is now
whole.
Bibliography
Dickey, James. Deliverance. New York: Delta, 1994.
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