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Narrator Voice Of The Narrator

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What makes a narration so unique? How different can we perceive a story depending on who and how tells it? In the act of storytelling, many features are essential, such as the narrative time or mode, but especially the role of the narrator is crucial. Depending on the narrator’s perspective, many different impressions can be assumed. In Charles Dickens’ “Hard Times”, Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” and Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” the narratological voice is third person, which means that the narrator tells the story from the outside. A third person narrator can be omniscient, which is aware of everything or limited, which has a more restricted knowledge. Each author has employed the third person narration in a different and unique way, which makes each story different from one another.

In Charles Dickens’ Hard Times, the narrator is third person limited omniscient. This means that the narrative voice has a wide overview of the acts, but it doesn’t always have an acute account of what is happening. Dickens made …show more content…

Bronte chose Lockwood as the main narrator, which during the whole story uses Nelly as his inner source of information, since he can only account what he sees in the contemporary time, in 1801, before Heathcliff’s death. His narrations are always influenced by his own perspective and of course, Nelly’s. Occasionally, Nelly also narrates and her perspective is everything but objective, she is of course, too engaged with the story. Her narrations are always about scenes in the past, when sometimes she wasn’t even present, so she quotes other’s witnesses’ reports, for example Zillah’s or even letters. In the following paragraph, we can see that Nelly herself claims to Lockwood how a steady or disciplined character she is, but at the same time lets us see that all of those lectures she has made, may creatively influence her

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