Pride And Prejudice Narrative Analysis

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Narration and structure

Pride and prejudice

The narration in Pride and prejudice is based interaction through a dialogue, but there are times where we see the story being told from Elizabeth 's point of view, but as the third person omniscient perspective or limited perspective in which as a reader we only know the thought and feelings of the character’s perspective. The story is being told through Elizabeth but it is not told in her voice. Exempel in chapter 4 Vol 1 “He is just what a young man ought to be,” said she, "sensible, good humoured, lively and I never saw such happy manners! so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!” we do hear about the other characters thought, but with less complex and shorter, since Elizabeth is …show more content…

The sentences have a very much complex structure, both long and short. The book is written and takes place in 18th centuries, there for the writing corresponds with the time, which is understandable. The characters speak in a very older time period and in past tense, where most words written in the book are not in my vocabulary. The novel is carefully well developed plot and ending. The point of view moves between character 's interaction through dialogue and omniscient …show more content…

We never get to know how Bridget looks like. We only read how her friends are concerned when she becomes too thin and the distorted view of herself due to the fact it is the first person point of view.However person point of view is largely self-centered nothing but her view matters. The construction of the sentences is short, the structure of the sentences are few, very simple and elliptical. ‘I’ is omitted, meaning there is no need to keep repeating it.

References Bridget Jones diary the author uses references that needs to be understood in order to fully grasp the text, Being the fact that the novel is based on pride and prejudice they are a lot of reference due to the novel, being that i have read the book, they are very easy to catch, Bridget Jones Diary is a modern version of pride and prejudice, it contains what has changed through the years in context of the

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