Beyond Genius and Insanity: Investigating the Psychopathic Obsessions of Grenouille in Patrick Süskind’s Perfume
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2022-06
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UNIVERSITY OF MOHAMED BOUDIAF
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ABSTRACT
This study addresses the issue and portrayal of psychopathy in Patrick Süskind's Perfume: the
story of a murderer. This research, entitled Beyond Genius and Insanity: Investigating the
Psychopathic Obsessions of Grenouille in Patrick Süskind's Perfume, seeks to examine the layers of
meaning behind the ceaseless bloodstained murders of the protagonist, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, in
eighteenth-century France. Likewise, the study strives to underscore genius and inborn talent as a
powerful impetus that led to the protagonist's transformative self-quest of manipulation, solitude,
power and self-destruction. As a result, this research ascertains that the protagonist Jean-Baptiste
Grenouille exhibits behavioural patterns that correspond to and overlap with the psychopath
checklist. It also unveils the genius yet villainous archetypal nature of this latter, who is trapped in
the fate between individuation and self-destruction
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Key Words: Perfume, Süskind, Psychopathy, Manipulation,Evil, Genius, Power, Archetype, Identity Crisis.