Hence, we can read The purloined letter as William Wilson’s Paris intervention in order to prevent the narrator from doing another immoral action. Because in William Wilson we only have access to the narrator’s point of view, we don’t know who is copying who, and thus, read like that, Dupin might be a similar image to William Wilson’s double, that intervened in Paris, while D. is blackmailing the queen.
In William Wilson the concepts of self and the other are relative because it depends from which perspective you are watching. Moreover, William Wilson introduce besides the idea of double the problem of imitation or mimesis. The double of William Wilson started to look more like the narrator after a process of imitation, which was the former’s …show more content…
We are going to demonstrate that the narrator and Madeline are both alter-egos of Roderick, who, because of the influence of the house and its surroundings, became inseparable from his living environment and thus he needs in his company others that are only reflections of himself. In this respect, Anca Peiu stated: „ the trio Madeline-Roderick-narrator can be viewed as a threefold image of the Freudian id-ego-superego representation of the human psyche.” (Peiu:61), and by this we can understand that all the other characters are, in fact, projection of Roderick’s ego. From the beginning of the story the narrator felt that the house of Usher has a specific element that separates it from the rest of the …show more content…
” (Poe: 141), according to which the environment: the stones, the trees, had created a domain with an unexplained singularity, increased by the waters of the turn which mirrored the landscape and thus amplifying it. What I am trying to underline is that The fall of the house of Usher brings to the reader the same image, but incorporated in another, as a mirror in mirror effect. The domain of the house of Usher is the reality which is mirrored by the tarn. It’s the tarn reflection that spread the uncanny feeling, with a „reduplication” (Poe: 141) effect. Thereby, the story speaks mainly about how a projection, a reflected image, modifies the reality, and eventually replaces it, like a dense mirror in which the characters all look at. The impact of the image he sees is very powerful, so that he becomes inseparable from his house, as his self could only exist in the world he was created and also created. With a narcissistic intention, he surrounded himself by characters which are also alter-egos of him, in order to maintain and project the same image his is part of now. The narrator noticed „
In William Wilson the concepts of self and the other are relative because it depends from which perspective you are watching. Moreover, William Wilson introduce besides the idea of double the problem of imitation or mimesis. The double of William Wilson started to look more like the narrator after a process of imitation, which was the former’s …show more content…
We are going to demonstrate that the narrator and Madeline are both alter-egos of Roderick, who, because of the influence of the house and its surroundings, became inseparable from his living environment and thus he needs in his company others that are only reflections of himself. In this respect, Anca Peiu stated: „ the trio Madeline-Roderick-narrator can be viewed as a threefold image of the Freudian id-ego-superego representation of the human psyche.” (Peiu:61), and by this we can understand that all the other characters are, in fact, projection of Roderick’s ego. From the beginning of the story the narrator felt that the house of Usher has a specific element that separates it from the rest of the …show more content…
” (Poe: 141), according to which the environment: the stones, the trees, had created a domain with an unexplained singularity, increased by the waters of the turn which mirrored the landscape and thus amplifying it. What I am trying to underline is that The fall of the house of Usher brings to the reader the same image, but incorporated in another, as a mirror in mirror effect. The domain of the house of Usher is the reality which is mirrored by the tarn. It’s the tarn reflection that spread the uncanny feeling, with a „reduplication” (Poe: 141) effect. Thereby, the story speaks mainly about how a projection, a reflected image, modifies the reality, and eventually replaces it, like a dense mirror in which the characters all look at. The impact of the image he sees is very powerful, so that he becomes inseparable from his house, as his self could only exist in the world he was created and also created. With a narcissistic intention, he surrounded himself by characters which are also alter-egos of him, in order to maintain and project the same image his is part of now. The narrator noticed „