THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
CONSCIOUSNESS
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Question
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It is easy to do/write
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It is more honest or true to life
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to better represent the human experience
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Stream of consciousness is a very difficult style to master and many writers have used it unsuccessfully. However, there are a few examples where stream of consciousness succeeds beautifully.
Detailed explanation-2: -Virginia Woolf is particularly well known for this narrative technique, along with some other modernist heavy hitters like James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Marcel Proust.
Detailed explanation-3: -stream of consciousness, narrative technique in nondramatic fiction intended to render the flow of myriad impressions-visual, auditory, physical, associative, and subliminal-that impinge on the consciousness of an individual and form part of his awareness along with the trend of his rational thoughts.
Detailed explanation-4: -Writers use stream of consciousness not only to show what a character is thinking, but to actually replicate the experience of thinking, which allows the reader to enter the mind and world of the character more fully.