Thursday, January 27, 2011

First person narratives VS Third person narratives

The first person narrative is often used as a way to directly convey the deeply internal, otherwise unspoken thoughts of the narrator. Frequesntly, the narrator's story revolves around him/herself as the protagonist and allows the narrator/protagonist to reveal inner thoughts to be conveyed openly to the audience, even if not to any other characters. Also, first person narratives may also have an unreliable voice (it is also applicable for third person, but mostly first person narratives), where the narrator is non-credible, due to the narrator being naive or inexperienced.

Third person narration provides the greatest flexibility to the author and thus is the most commonly used narrative mode. In third person narrative, it is necessary that the narrator be merely an unspecified entity or univolved person that conveys the story, but not a chracter of any kind within the story being told. The narrator is usually omniscient.

First person narratives are more used for showing the point of view of ONE character, revealing emotions on that character only (more focused on one character) Third person narratives are more used to tell a story of an event, where everyone's feelings can be described, and everything can be seen.

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