Doubling and Identity

From Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The novel obsessively doubles characters and names: Carmilla/Mircalla/Millarca, Laura/Bertha, suggesting fluid identity and the vampire's parasitic mirroring.
Chapter 11

The revelation that Millarca and Carmilla are the same being, an anagram of Mircalla — naming as both disguise and confession.

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