Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Characters
The first-person narrator, whose alias is Dr. Duke, and his attorney, Dr. Gonzo, another "alias," are the two protagonists of the book. Although it is through Duke's eyes that the horrors unfold, he and Gonzo are almost identical in their misanthropic attitudes and fears.
The drug-induced madness, the attacks of free-floating paranoia and disorientation, and the self-destructive drinking of the characters are all summed up in Thompson's title, which has become a code phrase in his later writing. He uses it in the title of his collection of campaign reports and in various magazine articles....
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