Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development

Who is Richard Parker — An Analysis of the Tiger Character in Life of Pi

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Yan-Yu Zhang
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Yan-Yu Zhang
Available Online December 2015.
DOI
10.2991/sschd-16.2016.23How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Life of Pi; Tiger; Mirror Image; Identity
Abstract

As the main leading role in the Booker Prize winner Life of Pi in 2002, the Bengal tiger named Richard Parker has gained great popularity and various analysis that comes along. Was Richard Parker a real tiger once in the life of Pi If not, what was he In this paper, with the help of Lacan's Mirror Image Theory, the analysis of the tiger starts from the existing doubts and by expounding the importance of his presence, the tiger's identity is to be verified and the reasons that Pi makes him become clear.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2015
ISBN
978-94-6252-227-5
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/sschd-16.2016.23How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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