Longer Fiction & Drama Introduction

It exposes varying internal viewpoints on shared family experiences, demonstrating conflicting interpretations.

It consolidates all family members’ thoughts into a singular cohesive narrative voice for uniformity sake.

It focuses solely on one member’s perspective per section, limiting understanding to isolated individual experiences only.

It describes each scene exclusively from an outsider’s viewpoint, offering objective commentary on familial bonds.

Their motives and beliefs

Their historical context and values

Their physical appearance and background

Their personality traits and emotions

A banquet hall where guests continually eat but express no satisfaction.

A brightly lit stage where characters engage in repetitive, meaningless conversations.

A deserted townsquare where clocks have all stopped at different times.

A cluttered room filled with characters who are silent throughout the play.

It assumes characters act outside of historical influence, emphasizing anachronistic values over authentic period depiction.

It dictates that all character choices are direct manifestations of authorial intent without considering socio-historical impact.

It highlights how the characters' choices are reflective of contemporaneous cultural ideologies and power struggles within the text and its creation period.

It confirms that individual agency is unaffected by historical context, focusing solely on personal morals and ethics as static.

The character generally becomes omniscient, gaining insight through others' actions around them.

This technique usually leads to a rapid evolution in the capability and maturity of the character.

The character may appear naive or foolish as events unfold contrary to their understanding.

The individual typically gains depth by learning from mistakes before others do.

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Mr.Darcy’s personality flaws could be dismissed entirely given post-colonialism focus strictly on cultural encounters between colonizers/colonized nations only

Mr.Darcy’s wealth and status may be scrutinized for their connections to British colonial power structures influencing social relations beyond England’s borders.

Their motives and beliefs

Their personality traits and emotions

Their role in the story and potential actions

Their physical appearance and background

The depiction of repeated actions highlights routine behavior patterns indicating attitudes toward daily life.

The use of rhetorical questions suggests inner dialogue reflecting personal views of characters.

Dialogue pacing controls conversational rhythm indicating relational dynamics between speakers.

Word choice reveals subtleties in how characters view specific situations or others.

Third-person omniscient

Third-person limited

First-person

Second-person

It often renders other characters' perspectives as less important to the plot.

It usually presents other characters as more reliable than the narrator.

It can lead to questioning the credibility and motives of other characters.

It generally highlights the trustworthiness and honesty of other figures.