Summary of the trip le horla
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The main theme in this short story by Guy de Maupassant is the supernatural and how far it is a part of the world we live in. Once a rational and relatively skeptical person, who thinks hypnotism is a hoax and can imagine many ways Dr. Parent might achieve his supposed feats with mirrors, the narrator eventually becomes convinced that he is "possessed" by an unseen force which he must kill, or else kill himself.
The thread of "the Invisible," or things which exist in the world beyond our rational understanding, first appears in the second of the narrator's diary entries, in which he considers the strangeness of our world being so vast and so full of things we don't yet know about. The narrator returns to this thought repeatedly throughout the story, as we see him becoming swayed more and more towards the monk's suggestion, at Mont St Michel, that there is indeed much we don't understand in the universe, and that this doesn't mean it is all fiction and fantasy.
As the story progresses, the narrator's level of rationality is inconsistent, although always trending towards the insane. The interlude with the hypnotist shows us the man as he must once have been, reluctant to believe that hypnosis can be real and considering the many and varied ways in which such hoaxes might be pulled off. When the hypnotist proves himself to the narrator, he is greatly troubled by this, as it seems to "prove" what the monk told him: that things are not limited to the "natural" as we understand it. This is extremely worrying to the narrator, because it seems to give him free rein to give in to his night-time suspicions of being haunted by some unseen force. If hypnotism might be real, why might not the Horla be real, too?
In the end, the theme of ambiguity in terms of what is and is not real is what holds the story together. As readers, we can never be sure, due to the unreliability of the narrator, whether the Horla ever existed, or whether it was all a concoction of the narrator's troubled mind.
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