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    artist, a talented, serious and careful writer who treated important contemporary issues. She has anusual interest in the symbolic, the psychological and also the art of fiction. Her novel The Conservationist (1974) is in a sort of the stream of consciousness technique describing the life of Mehring the Afrikaner, whose farm is as barren as his life. As pointed out by Macauley and Lanning (1964:163), it is usually through dialogue that the character is revealed. In the novel, The Conservationist

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    Rape Fantasies Analysis

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    Atwood utilizes stream of conscious writing to show her narrator’s jumbled thoughts as she describes her “fantasies.” Atwood’s short story depicts a narrator inexperienced in courtship and meeting men, as Estelle’s honest and seemingly endless stream of thoughts highlight her critical view of women she knows well and explain daydreams in which she meets and (hopes to) build relationships with unfamiliar men. As a whole, Atwood’s use of longer sentences and stream of consciousness emphasize the narrator’s

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    Stream of consciousness is a type of narrative that traces the thoughts and feelings of a character. It is a collection of myriad impressions that influence the flow of thoughts. It is a representation of the continuous movement in the mind of an individual. It approximates the flow of thoughts and sensory impressions that pass the mind each instant. This kind of narrative is often fragmented. There may be a lack of proper organization of ideas as thoughts do not necessarily flow in a particular

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    This novella is a psychological work, with the narrative voice of Fräulein Else. This is an inner monologue which describes a fatal day in the life of a nineteen year old girl. The theme of death runs for the whole course of the novella, Fräulein Else. This theme is very prominent and shown obviously because of the internal monologue. The reader becomes immediately aware of all the intimate feelings and thoughts of Else, and especially those regarding death. One sees throughout the text how Else

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    Stream of consciousness - an uninterrupted and unhindered collection and occurrence of thoughts and ideas in the conscious mind. "Stream of Consciousness." Literary Devices. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Nov. 2016. . Example: “I’m not gonna tell you my whole goddamn biography or anything. I’ll just tell you all about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run down and had to come out here and take it easy.” (Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, pg. 1) Function Context:

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    Stream Of Consciousness in Jane Eyre Jane Eyre written by charlotte Bronte. She was very famous writer. In this particular novel she introduced the element of stream of consciousness for the first time. This term was used by her for very first time in writing novel. It was age of reason when she introduces this element for the very first time. Age of reasons: Age of reason was an eighteenth century movement which was following strictly in the Middle Ages after mysticism, religion and superstition

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    One example of stream of consciousness can be seen when Bradbury writes, “One drop of rain. Clarisse. Another drop. Mildred, A third. The uncle. A fourth. The fire tonight. One, Clarisse…” (15). This shows the difficulties that Montag is having regarding the events that had occurred that night such as meeting Clarisse and Mildred overdosing on medicine. Another example of stream of consciousness is when Montag is on a train and he hears a commercial for

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    Stream of consciousness (different development between novel and film) The personality of Christopher is described in a quite different way in the book and in the film, or at least, the perspective of Krakauer is not the same than Penn’s perspective. In the book, Christopher is shown as a selfish, arrogant and irresponsible man, whereas in the film he’s a friendly and cheerful one, who just looks for freedom and independence. The film skip some passages, such as a brief introduction to his infancy

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    of Stream of Consciousness Telling a story through the stream of consciousness has been practiced by several authors in their works, however it is neither new to this time or a common form of writing. It is a complex take on what would seem like an easy writing style as the author sometimes has to put themselves into the mind of their character to describe their thoughts, or the author may draw inspiration from their own thoughts. Virginia Wolff’s The Mark on the Wall is an example of stream of

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    Stream of Consciousness Thoughts, emotions, and motives make up whom a person is. These are the same things that make up the characters in some of the most famous literary works. Stream of consciousness shows the thoughts, feelings, and ideas of a character through the character’s point of view. Stream of consciousness is a writing tool used most notably in the early twentieth century, during the rise of modernism. Another description for stream of consciousness is interior monologue. This interior

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