2018年1月31日 · Tolkien was certainly writing closer to the time when the omniscient POV was dominant, however, as well discussed above by Gareth, at that time the third person limited certainly seemed ascendant. I think a more important factor may have been Tolkien’s desire to write an epic based on the early mythologies of the early English, pre-Chaucer ...

2021年3月11日 · This type of narration can be contrasted with other third-person narratives, such as the omniscient third-person narration and the objective third-person narration. (Some sources use the term "subjective third-person narration" as an …

2021年12月7日 · In narrative theory,. A third person omniscient narrator conveys information from multiple characters, places, and events of the story, including any given characters' thoughts, and a third person limited narrator conveys the knowledge and …

The narration is third-person limited, that is, we are getting the events largely from Yates' point of view, so I interpret "Perhaps this was because she had been taken so completely by surprise" as representing Yates' own interpretation of what happened. An omniscient narrator would not need to use the word "perhaps". I responded by asking,

2021年11月23日 · Not to quibble, but I think this is actually 2nd person POV -- where the author speaks directly to the reader. First person POV is where a character "speaks" to the audience. I can't imagine why the author made the choice, other than it was the only way JA could find to convey the information in the way she wanted to.

2020年9月15日 · The point of view in ‘A Worn Path’ can be described as “third-person, limited, objective”. That is, it is told from the point of view of a “third person”, a narrator who not themselves a character in the story; it is “limited” (as opposed to “omniscient”), describing only things seen and experienced by the protagonist; and it is “objective” (as opposed to “subjective ...

2021年2月2日 · The narration is third-person limited, that is, we are getting the events largely from Yates' point of view, so I interpret "Perhaps this was because she had been taken so completely by surprise" as representing Yates' own interpretation of what happened. An omniscient narrator would not need to use the word "perhaps". –

2022年9月5日 · Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man concludes with these lines: That, urg'd by thee, I turn'd the tuneful art From sound to things, from fancy to the heart; For wit's false mirror held up nature's li...

2024年2月23日 · The snippet in question is not attributed to any of the characters. It is from Chapter 13 Section 1, which is narrated in the neutral third person point of view that governs the novel. You can find the passage here in the 1995 Book of the Month Club edition. Although not omniscient, this narrator is not presented as unreliable either.

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