Diapositiva 1

1
POSSESSION A ROMANCE
BY A.S.BYATT
Analysis of the first chapter
2
THE FUNCTION OF THE FIRST CHAPTER
The function of the first chapter is to introduce
the story and some characters through mystery
and suspance.
3
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE
Omniscient narrator
Narrator
narrator tries to abduct readers mind and leads
them to make a dive into pass through the
discovery of a book.
Inner narrator
Styles

• Telling or showing
• Free indirect speech
• Direct speech

4
CHARACTERIZATION
Characters
Roland Michell
Randolph Henry Ash
5
THE NARRATOR CITIES SOME BOOKS

• Pranks of Priapus
• The Grecian Way of Love
• Principj di Scienza Nuova
• The Garden of Proserpina
• Gods, Men and Heroes

6

• Omniscient narrator

He knows all of what characters feel and think.He
tells in the third person, sometimes he adopts
cahracters point of view.

• Inner narratoradopts a characters point of view
  or his point of view.

• Telling Is a presentation mediated by the
  narrator the scene reported is filtered thought
  his eyes.
• Showing Is the direct presentation of events,
  the narrator reports the scene and the words
  said by the characters without saying his comment.

• Direct speech gives the exact words in the
  report and uses Quotation marks.

• Free indirect speechthere is generally no
  reporting clause and it retains some features of
  direct speech (such as direct questions and
  vocatives).

7

• Roland

The characterization of Roland is made up from
what he is doing.The narrator doesn't initially
tell about Roland's felling or thought.She
introduces him through what he is doing,through
his behaviours and she describes the place that
surround him The London library. The aim of the
narrator is to create suspance and curiosity in
reader's mind .Subsequently the reader came to
know Rolands fellings He is glad to read what
Ash read. The narrator doesnt describe his
phisically the reader knows only what he feels
and what he does. He discovers two letter in
Ashs book He is curious .He reads twice the
letters.So the reader deduct that he is precise.

• Ash

The characterization of Ash is made up from his
letters who Roland discovers.With the reading of
the letters the reader can understand that he is
a fine,measured person but probably he is
undecided because he writes two letter and he
doesnt send them.His characterization also his
made up from mystery because the narrator gives
few details about him so the reader is leaded to
discover his personality through what he writes.