I just finished reading great expectations by charles dickens and i need to find an example of how point of view affects either the characters or impacts a theme!. thank you so much! Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Perhaps I'm wrong, but I would have said that the point of view affects the reader and not the characters, per se!. The reader feels what Pip feels and sees what Pip sees, because you see the action through his eyes!. A poignant example of this is in chapter 44 (when he confronts Miss Havisham about the fact that she made him believe she was the mysterious benefactor)!. This paragraph is an example: "In what ecstasy of unhappiness I got these broken words out of myself, I don't know!. The rhapsody welled up within me, like blood from an inward wound, and gushed out!. I held her hand to my lips some lingering moments, and so I left her!. But ever afterwards, I remembered - and soon afterwards with stronger reason - that while Estella looked at me merely with incredulous wonder, the spectral figure of Miss Havisham, her hand still covering her heart, seemed all resolved into a ghastly stare of pity and remorse!." The only way POV impacts the characters is that the reader, again, sees what Pip tells them to see concerning each person!. You don't know more about any person than Pip reveals in his narrative!. Generally, it's only in third person omniscient POV that the reader can know more about various characters than the protagonist does (unless someone other than the protagonist is the narrator, which is possible)!. Point of view impacts the theme in much the same way as it impacts the characters: the protagonist, Pip, is letting you know the people and actions from only his own perspective!. Sometimes in first person the theme can be a bit more obscure than in third person; the narrator isn't necessarily telling you only things relevant to theme but may wander here and there as "his" observations take him!. If, in Great Expectations, you take some of the themes to include the comparison of various forms of love and ambition and self improvement as well as Victorian social classes, chapter 44 gives you some examples of these!. You only see the theme of social classes, for instance, through Pip's eyes by how he describes the way people treat others from different classes!. (As an example, you can tell that the upper class Miss Havisham considers the lower class Joe to be far beneath her by the way Pip explains her treatment of him when they meet!.) This may not be of help, and I'm not even sure I've made my thoughts on the subject clear!. If this doesn't do anything for you, I'd recommend that you check out sites like GradeSaver, Sparknotes, Yahoo Education and/or Bookrags to see what other information you can gather!.Www@QuestionHome@Com i dont knowWww@QuestionHome@Com |