Analysis of the way voice and dialogue are used in a passage from Pride and Predjudice.
Date Submitted: 06/10/2003 11:18:51
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 4 pages (1126 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 4 pages (1126 words)
The passage used is from Volume 1 chapter IX, running from 'And so ended his affection' and running to the end of the chapter.
The passage concentrates on the interplay between the various 'voices' and as such is dialogic. Our understanding of events and characters is enhanced by the combination of 'showing' (dialogue) and 'telling' (narrative), which includes techniques such as free indirect speech and focalisation.
The passage opens with direct speech from Elizabeth. Her words …
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…the fewest amount of words whilst subtly manipulating our opinions.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY Austen Jane (1998 edn) Pride and Prejudice ed. Kinsley & <Tab/>Bradbrook, Oxford <Tab/>University Press (first pub.1813) Padley, Steve (2002 edn) Approaching Prose Fiction, Open <Tab/>University Morris, Pam Reading Pride and Prejudice in Dennis Walder (ed) <Tab/>(2002) The <Tab/>Realist Novel, Routledge
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