LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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It is not important to pay attention to point of view, and narrative voice is only important if it is a first person narrator.
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We identify better with first person narrators.
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If it is an all-knowing narrator, then the story will be “preachy” and moralistic.
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Knowing who is telling the story and whether they have a complete or limited perspective of the events helps you understand whether they are trustworthy and reliable narrators of the story.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Point of view is the writer’s way of deciding who is telling the story to whom. Establishing a clear point of view is important because it dictates how your reader interprets characters, events, and other important details.
Detailed explanation-2: -Settings not only help to clarify a given story’s themes. They can also help us to understand a character’s worldview through how they think about their surroundings.
Detailed explanation-3: -The biggest advantage of first person point of view is how deeply it delves into the mind of the narrator. No other point of view is as close. In first person, the reader gets to see all of the narrator’s thoughts, feelings, and knowledge.
Detailed explanation-4: -In first person point of view, the story is told from the narrator’s perspective. This allows the narrator to give readers their first-hand experience, including what they saw, felt, thought, heard, said, and did.