William Wilson Freedom and Confinement Quotes Page 1
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| Quote #1 Thenceforward my voice was a household law; and at an age when few children have abandoned their leading-strings, I was left to the guidance of my own will, and became, in all but name, the master of my own actions. (3) |
Before the arrival of William Wilson, the narrator was used to being in control.
| Quote #2 These, moreover, utterly trivial, and even ridiculous in themselves, assume, to my fancy, adventitious importance, as connected with a period and a locality when and where I recognise the first ambiguous monitions of the destiny which afterwards so fully overshadowed me. Let me then remember. (5) |
The narrator has just finished proclaiming his own sense of control, only to reveal that he believes himself subject to a cruel fate.
| Quote #3 The house, I have said, was old and irregular. The grounds were extensive, and a high and solid brick wall, topped with a bed of mortar and broken glass, encompassed the whole. This prison-like rampart formed the limit of our domain (6) |
We start to doubt the narrator’s claim that he was in control of his environment as a child.
