Literary Analysis: Understanding the Theme of the Labyrinth in the Ficcione of Jorge Luis Borges
This paper seeks to understand the theme of the labyrinth within the two short stories or ficciones The Immortal and The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorges Luis Borges are great short stories to study for this. In the essential elements of understanding the metaphysical properties of ideas in the human mind, it appears to be always changing in reflection to the perception of reality in the labyrinth. Borges creates these mazes to help infuse a sense of time and space, which ultimately reflect the horror or nightmare of the infinite.