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Unreliable Narrator
Where the narrator's point of view is unreliable and cannot be trusted.
Quite often these narrators (the people telling the story) have issues, which affect their judgement/truth. Because of this, their credibility is seriously compromised.
For example they can be:
--heavily medicated
--suffering from a form of depression or traumatic stress related illness
--loss of memory though a head bump
--loss of memory through dementia
--lying to cover up something (often they are murderers)
--just plain old crazy
Types of unreliable narrators (from WIki):
Sometimes the narrator's unreliability is made immedi ...more
Quite often these narrators (the people telling the story) have issues, which affect their judgement/truth. Because of this, their credibility is seriously compromised.
For example they can be:
--heavily medicated
--suffering from a form of depression or traumatic stress related illness
--loss of memory though a head bump
--loss of memory through dementia
--lying to cover up something (often they are murderers)
--just plain old crazy
Types of unreliable narrators (from WIki):
Sometimes the narrator's unreliability is made immedi ...more
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... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe—but it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but on
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― Peace
― Peace
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Why do we teach girls that their perspectives are inherently untrustworthy?" I would yell. I want to reclaim these words- after all, melodrama comes from melos, which means "music," "honey"; a drama queen is, nonetheless, a queen- but they are still hot to the touch. This is what I keep returning to: how people decide who is or is not an unreliable narrator. And after that decision has been made, what do we do with people who attempt to construct their own vision of justice?
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― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
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