William Godwin Essays

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Caleb Williams

The eponymous characters of William Godwin’s Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker serve as protagonists that do not always seem to be at the center of...

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Caleb Williams

Written almost two hundred years apart, William Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Toni Morrison’s Beloved convey stories in which the characters attempt to find freedom by fleeing from unfair oppression and the haunting remnants of oppression. Caleb...

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Caleb Williams

In William Godwin’s Caleb Williams, the titular protagonist Caleb is purportedly writing to prove his innocence after his former master, Mr. Falkland, destroys his reputation. However, in the postscript, once Falkland has died after being...