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Post by sgalle on May 17, 2010 10:43:14 GMT -5
NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE A story may be narrated in first-person or third-person.
First-person narrators actually appear in the story. They may be reliable (you believe them) or unreliable (you do not always trust their version of the story).
Third-person narratives may be limited (the story does not tell us what is happening inside characters' heads) or they may be omniscient (they know everything, including thoughts).
Which perspective is the work you read in, and how does this affect the work overall?
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Post by samia on Aug 23, 2010 0:33:32 GMT -5
The story 1984 is narrated in third person. The narrator is omniscient since he knows everything and sometimes talks about what is going on inside a character´s mind. This affects the book in many ways. Even though the narrator is not inside the story he doesn’t omit details, Orwell uses long descriptions for everything which makes the reader visualize the whole setting and become more involved in the novel. Since he is omniscient he also describes the feelings and emotions of Winston who is a very complicated character. If Winston would be telling the story it would be harder to understand him since he is always confused and changing his mind. In this novel it is necessary to have a third person narrator since the characters who live in Oceania can´t even think as individuals because they feel threatened by the party. There would be no way the character could describe how he felt during the book. If he did, then he would have eventually been caught by the thought police and ended being vaporized or brainwashed. By having a third person narrator the reader thinks a lot more and sees the book from his own perspective. Samia Cabezas
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Post by jonnykling on Aug 28, 2010 10:50:44 GMT -5
The book is narrated in third person. As you may tell the narrator is also omniscient because the narrator knows everything that is going on in the story but, the narrator only give imformation he wants you to know. I think that orwell made the narrator third person so that you could have a wider angle of view in the story and not only see what Winston sees. Jonathan Kling
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Post by palvarez on Aug 28, 2010 21:24:44 GMT -5
This novel 1984 is narrated in third person. The one that tells the story is Orwell and his an omniscient narrator because he knows all the story and tells us how Winston feels, thinks, act. This affect the work because Orwell describes the things that happen in the story and not only in the perspective of Winston but in all perspectives like the young spies that liked Big Brother. He made the novel be narrated in third person because it allowed Orwell to developed the characters like Winston, O'Brien etc or and tell the reader how difficult a totalitarian rule was. If had to be in first person the story would be difficult to understand because Winston was kind of confused and afraid of what may happen to him (like at the he was brain washed). Pablo Alvarez
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Post by dhidalgo on Aug 28, 2010 21:45:09 GMT -5
The narrative point of view in this novel is by Winston Smith’s eyes. This works very well in the novel because we feel the same emotions as the protagonist. If he feels confused for instance, we also struggle when reading the novel and trying to understand the system of Oceania. The readers become Winston with respect to feelings. The narrator is in third person and limited omniscient. 1984 is written in a gloomy tone since it has not much emotions and sensitiveness. Speech is very much restricted in this novel so we do not find a fluid prose that much. Orwell very well writes this novel since it makes the reader get fast in touch with Winston and experience events as he discovers them. This means that Orwell makes you experience Winston’s experiences, and that is why this book came up to be so intense and catching. The tone the narrator shows is pessimistic and sharp. This book is written decisively, with very direct sentences because of the dull experiences.
Daniel Hidalgo
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Post by imartinez on Aug 28, 2010 23:37:17 GMT -5
The novel 1984 is narrated in third person point of view because the story is told from someone who is not in the story. It is omniscient because the narrator has knowledge of everything. The narrator knows everything that is going to happen and also what the characters are thinking. This affects the story overall because the narrator even though he is omniscient, he omits things sometimes. For example, the narrator never told us that Mr. Charrington really was a Thought Police. This way the book is more interesting and keeps the reader intrigued. The narrator is very descriptive with the character’s thoughts, especially with the main character’. It is important to have a third person narrator because the characters in the story couldn’t tell what they thought because of the party. This helps the readers to see everything that is happening in Oceania from the outside and help the author explain what other characters were thinking at the same time. This way we can see many perspectives of living in a totalitarian place. Isabel Maria Martinez
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Post by Bernardo Missura on Aug 28, 2010 23:47:52 GMT -5
The novel 1984, by George Orwell is narrated in third person. The narrator is omniscient meaning that he is everywhere and knows everything, he knows Winston's feelings and thoughts. It was easier for me to know Winston's situation and experience, by knowing his feelings and thoughts. Also this narrator that narrates this novel is George Orwell, and he gives a lot of details to the weather, buildings, rooms, and more things like furniture, etc. Thanks to that I could imagine Winston's scenario, and see myself in there and I could understand better the novel.
Bernardo Missura
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Post by Micaela Andrade on Aug 29, 2010 0:02:59 GMT -5
The story of 1984 about Winston Smith, the main character, it is not narrated by him. The narrator is a third person that never appears in the story, probably because is George Orwell. The narrator is limited omniscient. This means that the narrator knows what is going on in the mind of Winston, but not of the other characters. This affects the story by making it a little bit confusing because you feel, think and know the same things as Winston but don’t know what to think about other characters. The narrator is very meticulous on what he or she describes. And even though he or she isn’t in the story, the reader without any problem can picture everything that Winston is feeling, seeing or thinking. Also having a narrator who is not in the story helps the reader have a better comprehension on what is going on in the life of Winston Smith. If Winston would be the narrator or any other character inside the story, he or she couldn’t express as much as this one because he would be committing “Thought Crime” and probably be vaporized. By having a third person narrator, the reader can see beyond what the main character sees. Micaela Andrade
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Post by juansebastian on Aug 29, 2010 0:59:59 GMT -5
In 1984 the narrative perspective of the book is from an omnicient narrator that can tell the story but like a viewer. The omnicient narrator knows everything that is happening in the story and has an specific point of view coming from a character in the book, in this case Wiston Smith
When readers dead the book they feel conected with the main character because the narrator expreses every detail that Winston feels and does and what is at his sorroundings. This omnicient narrator affects the readers reading in many ways, the main way is the idea to feel and think as Winston Smith does during the story. The way the narrator tells the story is helpfull because even though he is not in the minds of the other character he lets us know everything he can se from Winston's eyes. If there would be another narrator like a narrator that is part of the story it would be more difficult to understand because probably like in most books, the narrator only maintains focus in his wellbeing and not other.
The description of a third person narrator of this Totalitarian state that controls peoples minds is necesary. Like when people have the two minutes of hate and Emanuele Goldstein appears and every one shouts at him but they really don't know why, they just know he is an enemy of the party.
Juan Sebastian Perez
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Post by sofiasevilla on Aug 29, 2010 16:10:14 GMT -5
George Orwell wrote the book 1984 in third person, omniscient because the narrator knows everything, including the thoughts and feelings of the characters. George Orwell wrote many of his books about political thinking and ideas, as 1984 was a totalitarian world. Orwell was against totalitarianism and communism so this book was written in a way that it could criticize the ideas of a utopian world. Because of the third person narrator we know that this is not a good utopia is a wrong utopia, because even thought everybody has the same things and everybody thinks the same way is not for good. Because the narrator is omniscient we could feel sins the first sentence of the book how convince were the people about there world and it starts convincing us about it. Many details are given to the reader about how the character feels specially Winston, so I didn’t know what was correct to think, Winston’s ideas or the ideas given by the party. This book was well written in third person omniscient because it make us go deeper in the story and help us understand the feelings and the way thinking of the characters and the world. Sofia Sevilla
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Post by mmarinio on Aug 29, 2010 17:02:43 GMT -5
The novel 1984 is written in 3rd person, the character who narrates the story is Orwell and he is an omniscient narrator because he knows everything about Winston, how he acts, feels, thinks. Due to the fact that Orwell narrates the story, this novel is easier to understand, if Winston would have been the narrator of the novel it would have been harder to understand many aspects of the novel since he is very confused, he has many ideas in his head at the same time and he constantly change his way of thinking. It’s necessary for this type of novels to have a third person narrator, because in the case of Orwell, he describes every single aspect of the story so makes it easier to understand.
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Post by ariana on Aug 29, 2010 20:55:29 GMT -5
The novel 1984 by George Orwell is written in third person. In this case the narrator is omniscient since he knows everything that is happening. Orwell detailed in a very detail way what Winston does and thinks. This is very helpful because this help as understand the story and feel what Winston feels. If the novel would be narrated in first person it would be harder to understand. It needs taken on account that Winston is a complicated character and he can't act as an individual since he is living in a totalitarian government.
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Post by ariana on Aug 29, 2010 20:56:01 GMT -5
Ariana Guerra
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Post by camichiriboga on Sept 1, 2011 12:40:56 GMT -5
1984 Is written in third person perspective. The third person in this case is omniscient because he tells us the story but also what Winston the main character thinks. This is a great way to tell write this novel because it gives us the main plots but also the perspective of the character. It is easier to also learn about the characters this way because it gives us their physical appearance through the narrators view and is not altered by what Winston views. It would only be by Winston's eyes they would be described differently. The Big Brothers totalitarian state is seen with disapproval and rejection through Winston's thoughts and feelings. But the narrator also through the setting and story gives us a negative view of the totalitarian state that reflects Orwell's views. This gave the readers an overal negative view of a totalitarian state both from the narrator and Winston. It would of been interesting if either the character or the narrator would of had a positive view of the state. This is how the narrator's perspective has influenced the novel. Camila Chiriboga
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