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Poe's William Wilson.(Edgar Allan Poe)(Critical essay)
From: The Explicator
Date: 20070101
Author:Jung, Yonjae
The theme of doubleness is one of the recurrent subjects in Poe's oeuvre and is given its most formal expression in "William Wilson." In the story, the first-person narrator, William Wilson, meets a strange boy who is his manifest double at Dr. Bransby's academy. They have the same name, the same birthday, the same height, the same features, similar voices, and equal strengths. They always wear the same clothes, and they also share the same dates of admission to and removal from the school. Wherever William Wilson goes, he is pursued by the second Wilson. At Dr. Bransby's school, ...
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