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What is the effect of unreliable narration on the reader's perception of truth and reality in a story?
Let’s first examine the nature and behavior of an unreliable narrator! M.H. Abrahams gives us an idea of an unreliable narrator as someone whose perception, interpretation, and evaluation of the matters he or she narrates never coincide with the opinions implied by the author, which the author expecRead more
Let’s first examine the nature and behavior of an unreliable narrator! M.H. Abrahams gives us an idea of an unreliable narrator as someone whose perception, interpretation, and evaluation of the matters he or she narrates never coincide with the opinions implied by the author, which the author expects the alert reader to share. A story learned through this narrator creates a space within the fiction where the events are distorted and presented to appease the reader’s curiosity while hiding the other ongoing events. The unreliable narrator holds the power to reveal the different facets of this fictitious world as per his or her wish. The role of the reader then becomes that of a silent spectator who at the end of the story sees the entirety of the fiction by taking a step back from the narratology of the fallible narrator. The readers never need to differentiate between reality and otherwise, as the nature of the unreliable narrator becomes a narration style. They experience a shared thrill when the missed spaces of the fiction are revealed and the whole picture of the events is thrust at once, usually towards the end as seen in Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
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