Gollum's Duality In The Hobbit

with its “complex matrix of internal realities, conflicts between subject and object, self and other, thought and action” (Mathews. 2002. 87).
Nonetheless, in Gollum’s situation, the general method of character identification is to be seen as the consolidated impact of the Ring, the dark universe of obscurity and water he decides to live in and his own particular intrinsic character which leads to his physical and moral deterioration and consequently make him withdraw from the beautiful world of hobbit kind and lose moral and charitable nature. Despite the negative and the vague presentation of Gollum’s character that make him very hard to place in any distinct class he yet remains a Ring-carrier (to be trailed by Bilbo Baggins and afterward by Bilbo’s nephew Frodo, yet unexpectedly the one and only intended to turn into the Ring-destroyer) and additionally an individual from the same race. Bilbo and Gollum belonged to the same race; this can be initially seen in The Hobbit, their knowledge about the riddle game, bears a testimony to the fact that they shared a similar culture.

58-59).The mental split, which was seen among the Middle Ages as the division of body and soul, was treated in allegorical sense like Gollum’s schizophrenic in Tolkien’s work is certainly a manifestation of the twentieth century state of