What does narrative perspective mean?

Narrative generally includes six elements: time, place, people, the cause, process and result of things.

Narration is most closely related to time. Whether it is the process of human activities or the process of development and change of things, it shows a certain sequence and continuity, that is, the "process" is carried out under certain time conditions. Reports are generally arranged in chronological order. If there are more than two clues in the narrative, you can also arrange the sentences in parallel. Narration generally does not use central sentences.

Extended data

Traditional narrative works mainly adopt the tone of bystander, that is, third-person narrative. There are many first-person narratives in recent narrative works. Another rare narrative perspective is the second person narrative. In addition to the above three perspectives, another important special case is to change the narrative of person and perspective. Generally speaking, there are four kinds of situations: third-person narrative, first-person narrative, second-person narrative and personal or perspective change narrative.

1, the third person

A narrative from the perspective of a bystander who has nothing to do with the story. Because the narrator is usually an uncertain bystander, the traditional feature of this kind of narrative is that there is no visual angle restriction.

2. First person

In the first-person narrative works, the narrator is also a role in the story, so the narrative perspective moves into the works and becomes the internal focus narrative. This narrative angle has two characteristics: first, as a narrator and a role, this character can not only participate in the event process, but also describe and evaluate the readers without working environment. This dual identity makes this character different from other characters in the works, and more transparent and understandable than other characters in stories.

Secondly, his perspective as a narrator is limited by his role identity and he can't describe what his role doesn't know. This limitation leads to the subjectivity of narration, just like the focus perspective painting in painting, because of the limitation of projection relationship, there are differences in distance and occlusion before and after, but it is precisely because of this that a sense of reality as if you were in the past will be produced. Modern narrative works that focus on subjective psychological description often adopt this method.

3. The second person said

This is a rare narrative perspective. Because it seems that the reader is forced into the story, although it is only a virtual reader, it will always make the readers in reality feel a little strange.

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