For instance, Virginia Woolf did so with the narrative style in order to achieve the earlier mentioned phenomenon, namely to put the reader in a situation related to real life. ... As already mentioned in the beginning, Virginia Woolf uses this narrative technique on purpose because she wants to put the reader in a real life situation where it depends on himself on which accounts he attaches great importance, and consequently what opinion he forms of a certain character. ...

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A 1st person narrative is no more, potentially, unreliable than any other kind of narrative technique (3rd person etc.). ... However, the first person narrative of "Enduring Love" cannot be stereotyped in this way. ... His narrative directly reflects that of scientists and the method in which they examine evidence. ... Joe introduces this overview of the buzzard suggesting that within his own narrative he is trying to be as unbiased as the buzzard would be, striving for the perfect narrative that sees and hears all. ... However, the first person narrative in "Enduring Love", though unreliabl...

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In James Joyce's short story Araby he is successful in creating an intense narrative. ... James writes Araby from a first person narrative and in doing so he may have taken the opportunity to make a long awaited confession that is so deeply embedded in his mind he is able to remember it as it had happened only but a day prior. ... This imagery, detail and narrative technique helps to create a clear sense of realism and also a better understand the new emerging, frightening, thoughts that begin to whirl around inside the narrators mind; when his love for the girl begins to overpower his l...

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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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