Orlick: The Dark Double

From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Orlick, the journeyman blacksmith, functions as Pip's malevolent double — attacker of Mrs. Joe and would-be murderer of Pip himself.
Chapter 15

Mrs. Joe attacked with a convict's leg-iron — Orlick's crime, but Pip's guilt by association.

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Chapter 53

Orlick lures Pip to the sluice-house and threatens to murder him, accusing Pip of standing in his light — the doppelgänger confrontation.

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