Comparison Of William Wilson And Angel Of The Odd

Edgar Allen Poe was a great author in the 18th century. He is the author of both The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado. Both of these stories show the dark and mysterious ways of the narrator. Well, these stories have been written by the same author. Hence, they have some similarities and differences. Poe is a great writer who can describe a scene in one paragraph. The stories have the right tone and a gloomy mood. Edgar Allen Poe being the author of The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado, he shows some similarities like the mood of the narrators though there is a difference in the characteristics of the narrators. The narrators have similar motives and mental states though their plans of action and the outcomes of their crimes are different.

Poe is greatly inspired by Simms's Martin Faber, so much so that this villain is the basis for ‘William Wilson.’ “Many similarities exist between the two. Both Simms's Faber and Poe's Wilson self-condemn their sinister deeds and must confront their conscious minds, represented by Gothic "double" figures” (Jett). These ‘doppelgangers’ are the villains conscious. For instance, Martin’s doppelganger is his friend William Harding. William is responsible for “bringing Martin to justice for the murder of Emily Andrews” (Jett). Wilson's doppelganger is a schoolmate who has his same name and challenges him whenever he gives into his evil side. Their selfish needs motivate Faber and Wilson. “However, the major difference between the two centers on Wilson's inability to express guilt over his sins and Faber's perpetual need to confess his. Consequently, Poe failed to establish a dynamic Gothic villain in William Wilson—one capable of demonstrating feigned remorse in multidimensional facets Wilson commits only trivial crimes, hardly comparable to Faber's crime of murder” (Jett).

A very important similarity between the stories, is that they both are in the view point of a Union soldier in the nineteenth century, during the civil war. The similarities between these two books combine the ideals of battle and war, also the resemblances show how alike the two protagonists of the stories are.

     After studying the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case”, I began to see many similarities within the two stories. Both of the main characters in each story have characteristics that could be looked at as being alike, but after analyzing each character I started to find that although alike in some aspects, these two characters are very different from one another. At first I noticed that both Goodman Brown and Paul are starved for attention, but in different ways. Next, I see that each character has issues with their past and are both trying desperately to overcome them. Finally, I found that each character’s main goal in

In a way, these two stories are similar because both the authors had carefully chosen the words

Edgar Allan Poe is a prominent writer who wrote many peculiar and uncanny short stories and poems. One of the stories Poe wrote, “The Tell Tale Heart,” published in 1843, is about a narrator who is paranoid about an old man’s eye, so he decides to eradicate it. Another story by Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado,” published in 1846, is about a narrator who seeks revenge on his friend because, in the past, he was insulted by him. Both stories contain narrators, which are mentally unstable, but the narrator’s traits, their motives for the murder, and how their guilt is exhibited differ.

In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story. “William Wilson, Poe presents the naturally evil aspect of man. There is never a moment in which, William Wilson (both of them) are show to be good or evil. In a way, they’re only separable when William Wilson references his counterpart in fear. Both of the Wilsons have their own characteristics that can be seen as even. A primary example would be narrator Wilson’s gambling and drinking habit. These habits are present throughout the whole story, but these are typical “bad habits”.

The shared theme of doppelgangers and split personality is prominent in both stories. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde features a man named Henry Jekyll who has created a way to separate

Edgar Allan Poe has a distinctive and dark way of writing (Poe & Kennedy, pp.22). His mysterious style of writing appeals to passion and sentimentality. Poe’s most prominent works of fiction are gothic. His stories tend to have similar recurring theme of either death, lost love or both. Poe’s psychologically thrilling stories examining the depths of the humanoid psyche earned him much fame throughout his lifetime and after his death. And this distinctive style of writing made him possess his own style of wiring (Arbor, pp.71). There is a psychological concentration which is an important characteristic of Poe’s literatures, particularly the tales of horror that encompass his best and well-known works, such as The Black Cat and The Raven which

This essay will discuss the themes in Poe’s writing that mirror his personal life and, in addition, the fear and supernatural motivators for his characters. First, I will discuss Poe’s background and explore how he became best known as a poet for his tales of mystery and macabre.

Although now seen as the father of the modern horror story, Edgar Allan Poe was previously viewed as a drunken failure. Within Poe’s writings much of his own life riddled with guilt, anxiety, alcohol, depression and death shines through resulting in works that appear unrelated yet once dissected prove similar. This is true for Poe’s works “The Raven” and “The Black Cat”. Poe’s examples of gothic fiction share the use of the color black and a rapid digression of the narrator 's sanity while seemingly unveiling Poe’s internal pain. Despite these similarities, Poe’s works also differ immensely. “The Black Cat” focuses around death while “The Raven” is fixed around discovering the reasoning for a bird 's arrival. Moreover, gothic themes seen within “The Raven” do not necessarily remain constant when compared to “The Black Cat”.

In the story William Wilson, it is explained that he has always had a temper and a wild imagination. Giving us our first clue about this story. The boy start’s off in class describing this other person that is supposed to be his doppelgänger. William Wilson starts to give hints that it is not a second person but reveals it is the real William. When the other boy speaks in a low voice this is really the voice inside William’s head. William also tells us that the boy has the same birth date and name. Nobody notices the fight between the two in class whenever William mocks or argues with his other half. Turning out to be William’s conscience which he believes to be his doppelgänger follows William around multiple times in the story. Showing up

Edgar Allan Poe was a popular American author during the Romantic Era. During this era, authors wrote with emphasis on emotion and imagination, and Poe fits this stereotype perfectly. John Chua describes his reasons for writing by saying, “Poe’s writing aims at a concentrated affection or emotional response from the reader.” In many of his poems, Poe uses characters and plots that touch both the reader’s heart and imagination. These characters were often modeled after actual people in his life, such as his mother and many lovers. His poetry became even more famous after his death because of the “evil” persona that was adopted to his name (Meyers 263). In fact, two of Poe’s most famous poems, “Annabel Lee” and “The Bells,” were published after his death in 1849 (Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe). He achieved this reaction by using many different literary devices. Edgar Allan Poe’s biographical background contributed to the theme of death, role of women, and the use of doppelgänger to produce an emotional response from the reader.

When the same person features in the literature of two different stories written by the same author, they often show differences between behavior and description.

One of the issues in Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson” is the narrator’s sanity. In his paper Robert Coskren argues that Wilson’s psyche is divided and disintegrating. He uses three time periods in the narrator’s life to show the different states of Wilson’s mind. The first period Coskren uses is Wilson’s early childhood to show a time when there is only on self. The next time period he uses is the narrator’s time at school showing the beginning of his mental separation. And the last time period Coskren uses is the narrator’s adult life to show the complete separation of the two William Wilsons. Throughout the story William Wilson’s psyche is dividing due to his interactions with the external world.