The dual nature of these two twins serves to present the conflict of the work, where one source writes that:

"Roderick himself is associated with the abstract, a temporal, and ideal. Roderick's world is one of abstract pattern in black, white, and gray...He himself is a man of ideality, as the

narrator remarks, and as shown in phrenological terms by the expanse of his temples; that is, in the nineteenth-century contrast of ideal and real, Roderick is a person who seeks or perceives the truth beyond merely mundane phenomena [and that] As Roderick is aligned with the ideal, his twin Madeline is associated with the material and temporal-in other words, the real." (Voloshin: 21, 23)

Some common words found in the essay are:
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Approximate Word count = 594
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)