HUMAN 1BS Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Free Indirect Speech, Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord
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Lynn"s dumbed down language allows him to rant: experienced war first hand which allows him to do so. Disjunction between way narrator and lynn speaks: informality (lynn) Mismatched diction between narrator"s and lynn"s perspectives: same person talking, signs of mismatch: Perspective slips in and out of the characters consciousness: signs of shift: Immediate observations of the character vs. big picture of narrator. Use of pronouns that indicate shift of consciousness ( we ) Implies blending back into character, pulls out of lynn"s head when need to refer to bigger picture. Keeps attention: 1st person access (reader knows only what he knows, 3rd person perspective (no limited perspective that the 1st person has) Tension between the two perspectives can create humor/irony. Provides immediacy (1st person) and mediation (3rd person) Simulation of something that becomes integrated into society: more real than the real thing, ex: image of planes crashing into towers replaces the actual event.
