Narratology

“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is a suspenseful story not only because of its complex chronology and shocking ending, but also because of Faulkner’s unusual use of narrative technique. While the narrator is seen by many as a windows pane or mirror upon Emily’s life, there is more to the narrator than simply being an unnamed speaker or collective town voice. The rather unusual narrative perspective creates suspense and a sense of mystery as to the identity of the unnamed narrator, seemingly

“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is a suspenseful story not only because of its complex chronology and shocking ending, but also because of Faulkner’s unusual use of narrative technique. While the narrator is seen by many as a windows pane or mirror upon Emily’s life, there is more to the narrator than simply being an unnamed speaker or collective town voice. The rather unusual narrative perspective creates suspense and a sense of mystery as to the identity of the unnamed narrator, seemingly

Everyone in the society can have some influences in any way, negatively or positively. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden encounters many people throughout his journey. These relationships he has influence his view of the world, allowing him to mature from someone who dislikes the shallow cruel world to understanding this is how life is. This development is shown through "phonies" he meets throughout the novel, his brother Allie, and his sister Phoebe. The relationship

Throughout his writing career of forty-five years Beckett has been concerned with the aesthetic and epistemological implications of time consciousness. In his essay on Proust Beckett argues that Proustian demonstration presents to us a double-headed monster of damnation and salvation – Time. Beckett goes on to say, “the Proustian solution consists, in so far it has been examined, in the negation of Time and Death, the negation of Death because the negation of Time. Death is dead because Time is

This essay aims to examine narrative and stylistic elements in Leland’s flashback in Citizen Kane to show how they work to keep the audience focused on the story that Leland tells. Bordwell and Thompson shared that the manipulation of story order, time and frequency in the plot illustrate how the audience actively participate in making sense of a narrative film (81). Bordwell and Thompson mentioned that typically, in fictional biographies, life stories are presented chronologically and let their

Bakhtin describes dialogism as the ‘multiplicity of perspectives and voices’. It can also be understood as something that is ‘double-voiced’ or ‘multi-voiced’. In a dialogic piece, each character has their own final word, but on some level, it interacts with and relates to the voices of the other characters. ‘Dialogue’ does not progress logically or analytically, rather it does so in an interactive fashion. This makes dialogical works a lot more ‘objective’ and ‘realistic’ in nature. Bakhtin’s discussion

For Writing Project Three, I transformed Breaking Bad, a television series, into a news article. Specifically, I focused on the last episode of the series, Felina. Since I am a fan of dramas and I also enjoy to read the news frequently, I decided to combine my two interests for this assignment. Originally, I planned on transforming the drama, Mad Men, but that series is not as dynamic or familiar to most audiences as the critically acclaimed Breaking Bad. The Colonial News Coverage of Paul Revere’s

A Scrivener is a clerk, a copyist, a regular conforming 9 to 5 day job, get paid, get old, a life well planned, however; what if ones views and determination about life start colliding with others, then what becomes life for both the conformist and nonconformist as seen in Herman Melville's, “Bartleby, the Scrivener, A Story of Wall-Street.” Melville uses of direct characterization with his own description of Bartleby and indirect characterization through scenery, names and dialogue create a dense

The syuzhet in the first few scenes of Every Secret Thing omits and distorts the events surrounding Olivia’s kidnapping and murder in order to frame Ronnie as a criminal and Alice as an innocent girl. By doing this, the syuzhet creates several suppressed gaps which get filled by the enacted recounting later on. Numerous occurrences at the start of the film establish Alice and Ronnie’s conflicting personalities. At the pool party, Alice tries to fit in with the other girls, albeit unsuccessfully.

The writer sits, their fingers lay gently across the lettering of a keyboard. Images and words swirl through their mind, formulating the perfect literary storm. Yet their hands refuse to type. Even with the perfect story in mind, the writer must first choose the most effective mode of discourse to properly communicate their desired message. Every piece of literature, whether it be a poem or a novel, contains either one or various types of this communication. Rachel Lloyd, the author of Girls Like