Overview of narrative voice

1. Pride and Prejudice:
Analysing narrative voice
L.O: To be analyse the role of
the narrator and the effect on
the reader.

2. How does the narrator shape our opinions of
characters in the novel’s opening chapters?
What is the writer’s purpose?
KEY QUESTION

3. Internal homodiegetic narrator - A third-person account
where the narrator filters their account through the
consciousness of a particular character.
Omniscient narrator – a heterodiegetic narrator who can
move freely across the storyworld, entering the
consciousness of different characters and being aware of
all events that occur.
NARRATIVE VOICE

4. A technique in which the narrator appears to be narrating but adopts
the tone and speaks their words or thoughts of a character from the
storyworld.
FREE INDIRECT VOICE

5. • Offers summary at beginning and end of
chapters.
• Sums up aspects of characters.
• Selects every scene we see and words to
describe them- “… with a cold civility”
THE NARRATOR

6. • Does the narrator act as another character in
the novel?
• Is the narrator detached or opinionated? If so
what opinions do they have?
• Do you think the narrator’s voice is a male or
female one?
• Do you think that the narrator is leading you to
have certain feelings towards different
characters? If so who and what?

7. In the TV version Elizabeth speaks the opening line “It is a truth
universally acknowledged…”. Do you think the narrator shares
characteristics and opinions with the Elizabeth. Explain your ideas.
THE NARRATOR AND ELIZABETH

8. How does the narrator shape our opinions of
characters in the novel’s opening chapters?
What is the writer’s purpose?
KEY QUESTION