The narrator plunges in the mind of Septimus and reports in free indirect discourse the thoughts and feelings of this character towards the scene. ... Virginia Woolf called this method "tunneling process", the various characters´ thoughts of the past, providing the reader with information of a certain character, serve as tunnels to the interiority of this character. ... In this free indirect discourse the reader learns that Clarissa and Peter saw things differently, they argued often. ... In doing so, he takes on the tone and style of the respective character, and is able to express...

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While most philosophers title written compilations of their thoughts treatises or discourses, Descartes titled this particular piece Meditations to emphasize to the reader the cooperative nature of the work. ... This allows the reader to feel more in control of the argument since he is more likely to accept as true that which he feels that he discovers by his own methods. ...

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