PHIL 201 : ENGL 206 February 18.docx

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 201
• Professor: David Anderson

Document Summary

Indirect discourse: reports a character"s thoughts in the third person: why use free indirect discourse, allows the reader to experience events and emotions as the character experiences them, which may allow for greater sympathy, by blending the character"s voice with the narrator"s, it may imbue the character with a degree of narrative authority, in austen"s case, she often uses it to comic effect: how better to mock. Sir walter than with his own words: immersion in a character"s perspective can cause the reader to have the same blind spots as that character, produces narrative ambiguity can sometimes be difficult to determine what is fid and what is only narrator, and when a shift occurs, first person vs. narration: first person implies that the person is consciously saying these things but with narration, there isn"t so.