The evil in “Adventures of The German student” by Washington Irving is caused by no other person than wolfgang himself. Wolfgang causes his own evil because he makes his own decisions and he isn’t heavily influenced by anyone but himself. “His health was impaired; his imagination diseased”. (Irving 2). This shows that Wolfgang has bad thoughts and he lets his mind get the best of him. Wolfgang doesn’t have much control of what he thinks and he has a wild imagine with things that may never happen. “He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature” (Irving 3). This showed that Wolfgang relied heavily on literature to provide him with happiness. But he happens to rely on the literature that is apparently
