So can someone explain the significance of 'duality'

I'll bump out of interest

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>>86684635
I'm pretty sure it has something to do with Native American mythology that Lynch based the show on.

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>>86684635
give a hoot. read a book.

>>86684635

There's a lot of things that be said to have dualism or duality in Twin Peaks. Basically every time you have a pair of characters that stand in sharp contrast to one another it's duality, whenever a character has aspects that stand in sharp contrast to the other it's dualism

E.g Leland Palmer, upright lawyer horribly afflicted by the death of his daughter vs Leland Palmer demon possessed incestuous monster rapist is an example of duality.

Dale Cooper, charming, dashing, righteous, cheery FBI agent vs Windom Earle, scheming, cackling mad supervillain fallen FBI agent, is an example of duality.

>>86685817
But in itself it's not interesting.

What's interesting is what this system of dualistic opposition can tell you about the show.

For example, the opposition between Dale and Windom might reflect on a mundane level, the cosmic opposition between white lodge and black lodge and therefore good and evil.

(It's at stupid pedestrian interpretation that I don't subscribe to but it's a simple example of what I mean by organising and interpreting dualistic opposition)

>>86685911

So basically, Duality is a tool in the toolbox of the cultural commenter, its significance depends on what he's trying to achieve in putting forward dualistic elements from the show.

>>86685911
>What's interesting is what this system of dualistic opposition can tell you about the show.
What did you get from the show though? What did the dualism mean to you, and what did it say about the show and the characters in it?