By employing the use of an omniscient and often intrusive narrator, Forster commands a narrative technique characteristic of Victorian realism; however, the interjection of free indirect discourse within the narrative shows a desire to move away from tradition, a characteristic we would associate with the emergence of modernism; therefore, we can assume that through the ambiguous nature of the narrative form, we are exposed to the authors unease with, and conflicting ideas towards the threat of modernity, not just aesthetically, but within the context of how such dramatic cultural and social u...

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Firstly, from his imagination he creates 'the child of his desire' showing a strange fixation with the supernatural. ... Following this, as the young child dies, his obsession seems to become even stronger as he 'thrust his virile member into the dead girl'. ... Likewise, in 'The Tigers Bride', the young girl appears more pleased when the beasts disguise dies and he shows himself in his true nature, again supernatural, and once she changes into a beast herself she is not daunted by the death of her human form. ...

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It is very clear from the beginning that the narrator has no desire to have any association with the blind man, or any blind man for that matter. ... The narrator's opinion is not even swayed by the fact that the blind man's wife has just died, and although he is still polite to him and feels some pity at times, he never falters from his biased opinion of blind people. ...

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