Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol 2, No 7 (2012), 1498-1502, Jul 2012
doi:10.4304/tpls.2.7.1498-1502

A Narrative Analysis of Lessing’s The Fifth Child

Kun Zhao

Abstract


This paper does a narrative study on Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child for a better understanding of its narrative structure. It analyzes the narrator in the novel from overt and reliable narrative viewpoint. This paper explores the narrative power of the novel from the analysis of its narrator and narrative structure. Through the narrative skills Lessing successfully enforces the narrative power in the novel.


Keywords


narrator; person; overt and covert narrator; reliable and unreliable narrator; point of view

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