Jeanette Wintersin’s text Written on the body the role of the ungendered narrator is a highly subversive narrative strategy that serves to challenges traditional gender binarisms that exist as a perversive element within the phallogocentric ideologies of the West. I shall explore how Winterson engages with this task by positing ‘gender’ as unimportant in the construction of individual subjectivity. Secondly‚ the ungendered narrator challenges the phallogocentric assumption of heteronormativity through
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In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado‚” the narrator‚ Montresor‚ compromises his reliability by not backing of the events of the story. It is told from his point of view and he never says anything about what Fortunato is thinking or how he feels about the situation. Montresor is very one sided. Throughout the story‚ Montresor slowly reveals that he is angry with Fortunato but he never tells us exactly what happened even after he kills him. He says in the first paragraph of the story that
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Darkness Heart of Darkness contains two layers of narration. The outer narrator is a passenger on the pleasure ship The Nellie‚ who hears Marlow recount one of his "inconclusive experiences" (21) as a riverboat captain in Africa. This unnamed narrator speaks for not only himself‚ but also the four other men who listen to Marlow’s story. He breaks into Marlow’s narrative infrequently; mainly to remark on the audience’s reaction to what Marlow is saying. He is omniscient only with respect to himself
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Noel By Michael Plemmons The story has a 3rd person narrator. It is not an omniscient narrator since the narrator doesn’t know everything that’s going on in everybody’s mind or at least the narrator isn’t telling us about any thoughts or anything like it. The angle is very narrow since the narrator isn’t giving us much detailed information about the characters or the scene. In the story there isn’t any main character. In the story we have three kinds of characters: the buyers‚ the seller and
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The pardoner seeks a commission from his audience for his tales. He himself is also one that is overtaken by money. Does he sincerely care about the condition of one’s soul or is he just out for a quick buck? On page 9‚ the pardoner comments that his "holy pardon cures and will suffice/ So that it bring me gold‚ or silver brings/ Or else‚ I care not- brooches‚ spoons‚ or rings." Personally‚ I believe that the pardoner is willing to tell just about anything to receive money for himselfThis story
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Isabel Miranda Dineen Juventus August 28‚ 2014 John Smith as a Narrator John Smith is not a credible narrator because he is writing a third person narrative about himself; therefore there is not more than one perspective neither more than one point of view. This gives his writing a possibility of being subjective. One of the main reasons I believe that John Smith is not a credible narrator is because his point of views and perspectives are biased. This also brings up the possibility of him over
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The fabliaux‚ "The Reeve ’s Tale" and "The Miller ’s Tale" of Geoffrey Chaucer ’s The Canterbury Tales‚ express similar characteristics yet simultaneously express differences. "The Reeve ’s Tale" is far more perverse than "The Miller ’s Tale"‚ which is expressed as a story of slapstick humor and ignorance. Both "The Reeve ’s Tale" and "The Miller ’s Tale" coincide on the topic of deception. Both of these tales express the theme of revenge. "The Reeve ’s Tale" concentrates on the theme of sin more
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Is Nick carraway a reliable narrator? In the beginning of the book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Nick could be described as the main character but as the book goes on Nick is having more of a secondary role‚ instead of the primary role which he was supposed to be. The Great Gatsby is shown through the eyes of one man. We as the readers don’t know whether or not whatever Nick says is correct or true. A good narrator doesn’t judge people but Nick does this a lot. We see how he changes at different points in
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congratulate me as if I had gone from a serious illness. " Life at sea and in foreign ports is the backdrop for most of his stories‚ but his obsession was the fundamental human condition and the individual’s struggle between good and evil. Often the narrator is a retired marine‚ possibly Conrad’s alter ego‚ as some of his novels are considered autobiographical‚ an example is‚ Almayer’s Folly (1895). One of the most popular novels of Conrad’s Lord Jim (1900)‚ which explores the concept of honor through
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Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad was able to introduce and build both external and internal conflicts that continue to develop throughout the text with the use of literary techniques such as external dialogue‚ internal dialogue and figurative language. Marlow‚ the protagonist‚ tells his story and is listened to by the first person narrator‚ creating external dialogue that illuminates Marlow’s internal conflict. The narrator himself then alludes to his own conflict of fear through internal dialogue
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