In The Prestige by Christopher Nolan, two magicians, named Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, have an ongoing feud that was caused by the death of one Angier wife. This then leads to seeing who was able to create the greatest trick, and it seems that Alfred had won that title. He had come up with a trick called “The Teleporting Man”, in which he was step inside one box and would magically come out the other. It is revealed later that Alfred had an identical twin brother named Fallon Borden, they would perform the trick together. The two Borden brothers have very different personalities that depict the emotions joy and anger, these emotions symbolize the greater need for emotions to be put together instead of being separated into individuals. …show more content…
Alfred had chosen the family path, he had gotten married to the love of his, and he had a daughter along with it. But with being married, and having two brothers switching between their lives usually does cause complications. When Fallon had lived with Alfred’s wife, he was always angry and emotionally detached from Alfred’s wife because he didn’t love her. This causes many problems between Alfred and his wife, disrupting the normally joyful atmosphere. Alfred’s wife and daughter both symbolize the joys that make up one of the Borden brother’s life, although joy is generally thought as a happy emotion, it still needs another part to make it