Poe's William Wilson And Multiple Personality Disorder: Shedding New Light

Heather Knous 11-2-01 Poes William Wilson and Multiple Personality Disorder: Shedding New trip In Edgar Allan Poes story William Wilson, he attempts to explain a psychological issue before the presence of the science of psychology. By explaining a new idea, he struggles to define the sickness from which the storyteller is suffering, and of which he ultimately becomes a victim. In light of the modern supposition of multiple personality disorder, we can begin to take care and explain the ambiguous meaning often found in the text. In this essay, I will find four parts of the story, and examine how each section successively builds up the idea that the cashier suffers from multiple personality disorder.

The first section of the story is the poseation of the narrator, in which he is recounting for us what has happened up to the present point. The narrator introduces himself and then proceeds to tell the audience that he is dying. Hidden within the text, are subtle clues that the narrator has suffered from a disease. He describes himself as being an object for the scorn?for the wickedness?for the detestation of my race (337). In this line, the race of which he assumes himself to be a part, is most likely those outcast in a union that does not understand mental illness. Oh, outcast of any outcasts most abandoned.



 Here, the idea of the narrator being an other is supported. The narrator is abandoned and outcast because he suffers from a disease. A society often scorns what they do not comprehend, and Poes society did not understand mental illness; and therefore reject the narrator. It seems that American society has and always will reject those in most fearsome need of help. The narrator, at the time of his death, is caught in the midst of Brobdingnagian confusion, trying...

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