Setting

Structure of the setting throughout the story change and are important because as the narrator leaves the academy, then to Eton, to Oxford, and then to Paris the narrator becomes more corrupt and for this reason the alter ego appears, to deter his immoral behavior. The narrator explains his settings in the academy in the beginning with lots of detail, the structure of the building and the limited freedom he experienced living there, this description foreshadows the mental trapment the alter ego has on the narrator. When the narrator leaves the academy he wants to forget his encounter with his alter ego at the academy, so he enrolls in a different schools and he begins to live a lifestyle of partying and scheming to escape from his own self, who he thought was a perpetrator trying to emulate him. The setting of the narrators enrollment in different schools and his visits to different countries to escape his alter ego, showed the narrators determination to escape his alter ego though he could never escape from himself.