Narrative Perspecitve and Voice in Jane Austins Pride and Prejudice an

Narrative perspective and persona is a major aspect of a novelette as Jeremy Hawthorn suggests in Studying the Novel, source and medium affect the selection, the authority and the attitude towards what is recounted of the narrative The narrative perspective can be used to shape or in some cases mis-shape the story. Looking at both Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice and George Eliots Middlemarch, the narrators of these novellas hold a quality of influence oer the reader. Through comparing and contrasting how the two different authors have used the narrative perspective to develop their novels, through voice, linguistic register, free indirect deal and narrative distance in respect to the intimacy of the information shared with the reader.Looking at both Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice and George Eliots Middlemarch, the specify of view otherwise known as perspective and voice, do contrast one another. Perspective and voice are defined by Hawthorn, as the views of the characters a nd events in the novella are relatable by human experience, which in turn makes the novella more realistic . Pride and Prejudice can be seen in this weak as the narrator explains events as the plot unfolds. In this line of thinking the voice can be interrupted as third person semi-omniscient, that the perspective is mainly Elizabeth Bennett. The use of a semi-omniscient voice works well as information is not so readily disclosed to the reader. Within Middlemarch the voice would be third-person omniscient as the narrator knows all and discloses this information, but the perspective would predominantly be Dorothea, Lydgate and the narrative. Through the narrative, the reader discovers information before the other characters inside the novella. As Ha... ...res that make these books continue to live on for centuries. Due to the constraints of the essay not all aspects of the narrative perspective could be discussed and the role they play with the novellas. full treatment CitedAusten, J. Pride and Prejudice (Ware Wordsworth Classics, 1993)Eagleton, T The English Novel (Oxford Blackwell Publishing, 2005)Eliot, G Middlemarch (Ware Wardworth Classics, 1994)Hawthorn, J, Studying the Novel (London Bloomsbury Academic, 2010)Morris, P Realism (Oxon Routledge, 2003)Newton, K.M. Narration in Middlemarch Revisited in George Eliot Review, 42 (2011), p. 19-25,6 accessed 1 April 2014Southam, B. C, Jane Austen, in The English Novel, ed. by A. E. Dyson (London Oxford university Press, 1974)