LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Someone that is trustworthy
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Someone who gives all sides of a story
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Someone the reader can’t fully believe
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Someone who always breaks the rules
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Detailed explanation-1: -An unreliable narrator can be defined as any narrator who misleads readers, either deliberately or unwittingly. Many are unreliable through circumstances, character flaws or psychological difficulties. In some cases, a narrator withholds key information from readers, or they may deliberately lie or misdirect.
Detailed explanation-2: -Using an unreliable narrator gives you the opportunity to add a surprise plot twist later on in your story. The moment where the narrator is revealed to the reader can be thrilling and lead them to reflect on everything that has happened so far in the plot through new eyes.
Detailed explanation-3: -An unreliable narrator is a first-person narrator of a story that can’t be trusted for a complete or truthful account of that story. They may be unreliable on purpose, telling lies, for example. Or their unreliability may be an unintentional symptom of their character.
Detailed explanation-4: -A “reliable narrator” is defined as someone who is accurate and impartial, so by contrast, an unreliable narrator is untrustworthy. Salman Rushdie, even enjoys deliberately making unreliable narrators because they are “a way of telling the reader to maintain a healthy distrust.”