Poe's William Wilson

Who or what was William Wilson? Have you ever thought of your conscience as a separate being in the physical state? Well, Edgar Allen Poe describes a situation in which this may be the case in William Wilson. Who was the other William Wilson? What were the chances the narrator and William Wilson had the same name, same date of birth, and the same physical appearance? Was William Wilson the narrator’s conscience? When William …showed first 75 words of 936 total…

…showed last 75 words of 936 total…that William Wilson is the narrator’s conscience. Again, it could be disputed that Wilson was actually a hallucination created by the narrator, and I believe there was a hallucination because the narrator could see Wilson. But I believe that the hallucination itself was the physical form of the conscience. The narrator clearly suffered from sort of mental disease and that disease, his conscience, eventually brought him to the edge and ultimately to his fall.