Abstract
This paper tries to read how Tom Stoppard makes use of the notion of quantum mechanics which illuminates a world of probabilities in Hapgood (1988). Hapgood combines Spy Thriller which represents some sort of objective reality with the predictable world of international espionage.<BR> Stoppard dramatizes the relativity and uncertainty in the real world by linking between the ambiguities of human personality, like a double agent and an identical twin agent, and the duality of light which means light can be both wave and particle. The play draws an analogy between the duality in particle physics and the duality in human personality.<BR> This analysis focuses on the parallels between quantum mechanics and the international espionage as a metaphor for the concept of uncertainty which link the dual nature respectively. The dual nature of a single individual operates in contrast between being personal and professional in the world of espionage. Stoppard invites and leads us to find and see the dual nature within the single self and the uncertainty of the person’s being as a new possibility of epistemology.
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