ears.Through out the novel Robert Wringhim has several meetings with a mysterious companion. This companion takes on other shapes, but in their first meeting the companion looks exactly like him in every way. What was my astonishment, on the perceiving that he was the same being as myself! The clothes were the same to the smallest item. The form was the same; the apparent age; the colour of the hair; the eyes; and the features too were the same (131). This shows that Robert may have hallucinated his split personality to actually be in the flesh.The most convincing evidence for the argument of Robert Wringhim having Multiple Personality Disorder is the fact that he feels another personality inside of his own body. I generally conceived myself to be two people. When I lay in bed, I deemed there were two of un in it; when I sat up, I always beheld another person (158). He describes in great detail about his feeling of another personality inside of himself. He even mentions that there could be more than one other personality inside of him. It not mattered how many or how few were present: this, my second self, was sure to be present in his place (159).After examining the evidence for Robert Wringhim being diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder, the question is no longer if he has the mental condition but what could be the traumatic experience that drove Wringhims mind to MPD. I believe there can only be one explanation for this. Societys rejection of Robert traumatized him so severely that his mind is forced to take on other personalities. Wringhim is described as a very lonely individual through out the entire book. His father rejected him when he was very young and his mother loved his brother more than him. He had no friends besides his mysterious companion (if he can even be called a friend because he only used Robert to do evil) who was merely a hallucinated figment of his imagination. I was born an outcast in the ...
