ENGL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Swiss Alps, Pope Victor I, The Technique
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Essay - to work on: think about structure: sequence of events the tour of thorn eld comes after mrs fairfax talks about rochester"s character, the house is a substitute for his inner character. Story: the events as they occur in a chronological sequence; abstract in our minds. Discourse: how the story is presented to the reader. Includes: narration, point of view, time, structure, stream/representation of consciousness (decisions about how to represent the though process of characters) Structure: the end point and entry point of the story is in the arctic (outer frame) Chain of tellers and listeners: outer frame walton write to his sister victor. Doubling between victor and the monster: even at the level of robert walton he is involved in the re ecting (to his sister) Victor loses a part of himself (his reason) in the monster and has to chase after it: re ecting of victor.