ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tyrant, Free Indirect Speech

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Gaye Taylor

Document Summary

Hysterics uncontrollable laughter and crying simultaneously. Third person, but eventually seems as first person: style of free indirect discourse narrator moves in and out from perspectives and you are not directly told when this happens. Writer uses this to confuse reader as to who is speaking or if the narrator is trying to include their own bias. There can be a nightmare-ish/dream-like quality of arguments. When a narrator (usually 3rd person) seamlessly moves into the thoughts or speech of one or more characters without the use of conventional markers, such as quotations marks and sometimes without the words he said or she thought. There was a sense of anonymity of the characters. At the beginning it is almost as if they are playing their own roles in a production as country people. Porter inflicts a familiar fight on us.