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This 3 page paper compares two narrations: Jane Eyre's first person discussion of her own life, and Jane Austen's third person narration of "Pride and Prejudice." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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in the first person, while Pride and Prejudice is written in the third person; what we usually call omniscient. This paper discusses Janes reliability as a narrator and identifies her
limitations and strengths; and then compares her narration to that in Pride and Prejudice. Discussion Some of the strengths and problems of having the protagonist narrate the story that he
or she is living are well know: perhaps the greatest strength is that we can see, hear and feel what the narrator does the moment they do. And perhaps the
greatest weakness is that we dont know any more than they do. We cant tell whats going on with certain characters or developments unless Jane knows about them too. She
cant fill us in on things because she doesnt know. For instance, neither she nor we know that Mrs. Reed is ill until Jane says she has to leave
Thornfield for a time; if the narrator had been using omniscient voice, we would have already known Mrs. Reed was sick long before any message arrived. In short, a first-person
narrator can only tell what they are thinking, feeling, hearing, smelling and seeing, or what they can logically conclude has happened. But they cannot tell us anything about events that
are taking place far away, or even in another room. On the other hand, a first-person narrator like Jane can speak directly to us about what shes thinking and feeling,
something thats difficult for an omniscient narrator, because he somehow has to justify violating the convention that says narrators dont talk to readers except in first person. Thus, when Jane
describes her first meeting with Mr. Rochester, she can invest her narration with all the passion, drama, romance and uncertainty that she actually felt when she saw him. Jane is
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