Topic: Narratology in MiddlemarchPaper: Victorian LiteratureUnit: 2Prepared By: Lajja BhattRoll no:18Semester:2Guided by: Dr. Dilip BaradMaharaja Krishnakumarsihji Bhavnagar University

Narratology

• Aristotle has used three Stages in narration:t he hamartia, the anagnorisis & the peripeteia.

• Gérard Genette is a French literary theorist gave the theory of narratology in the chapter ‘Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method’ in his major work ‘Figure’ series.

• Narratology is the term related to Structuralism.

• According to Gérard Genette there are four main concept for narratology: A) Order

B) Frequency C) Duration D) Voice.

Narratology• Theorists have differentiate it and canonized the

term to explain the complicated nature of narratology.

• There are certain terms which define the types of narrative.

• Story and Discourse are the terms applied to every kind of narrative.

• Story means the theme or the story line followed by narrator.

• Discourse refers to the manipulation of that story in the presentation of the narrative

Narratology

• Fabula : Chronological sequence of the narrative• Seyuzhet: Re- presentation of those events.• Focalize: To focus on the specific character.• Meta-digetic: A person inside the story narrates• Extra-digetic: A person outside the text narrates

the story• First person narrative: The person within the story

tells his/her own story.• Third Person narrative: the person outside the

text narrate the story.

Narratology in Middlemarch• It is narrated in very intelligent way.• It is the third person Omniscient way :temporal, spatial &

psychological.• Although the author gives us birds view , she has paid

attention to every characters.• There a maintenance of continuity of the flaw.• This continuance make the novel more explicit and clear.• She also uses the style of fictional rhytoric.• The story is about the people lived in the town named ‘

Middlemarch’.• Every character has his or her own dream to fulfill.

Narratology in Middlemarch

• The special and notable thing is that each chapter is started with a beautiful quote.

• She has created romantic atmosphere balanced with reality.

• Although Dorothea is focalized, other characters are also portrayed well.

• It seems that she talked about how woman should choose a man for her.

• But for her every event is important comparetively to the Jane Asten.

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