Secondly, the narrator failed to achieve the liberation he expected to gain after his double’s death, instead his life turned into a living death. Through out the story, the narrator is aware of the control that he has over others, as a result of the wish to save himself from his uncontrollable behavior, he created the second William Wilson; his double that functions as his conscience and helps him control his desire for manipulation and power. The narrator has confessed that he could have lived a better life if he had listened to his double’s advices. He said that “ I might today, be a better and happier man if I had more often done what he said”. After the protagonist left his school, he though by getting rid of his doppelganger; he would
