Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Lesson 6: The idea of the double / Schizophrenia
Edgar Allan Poe's 'William Wilson'
What say of it? what say (of) CONSCIENCE grim, That spectre in my path?
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/w_wilson.html
A story of a man who must violently battle his alter ego in order to reclaim his identity, a scenario strikingly similar to Fight Club. Poe's tale is strikingly similar to Fight Club in the sense that the story's protagonist must violently battle with his alter ego in order to reclaim his own identity.
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