{"id":1658,"date":"2022-09-13T19:25:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T02:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalmaya.com\/narrator-meaning-examples-types\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T19:25:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T02:25:27","slug":"narrator-meaning-examples-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalmaya.com\/narrator-meaning-examples-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrator: Meaning, Examples & Types"},"content":{"rendered":"
A narrator is the imagined ‘voice’ assumed to be telling the story to the audience. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>A narrator is often the main character. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>However, the narrator can be absent from, or present in, the narrative events. This determines how much they know about the events they are narrating, and therefore how much they can tell the audience. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>The separation of the narrator and the narrator’s point of view allows the reader to understand the characters’ different narrative perspectives.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Aristotle (<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>poetics, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>335 BC), defined three kinds of narrator: a) a speaker who uses their own voice, b) a speaker who assumes the voices of other people, and c) a speaker who uses a mixture of their own voice and the voices of others . <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Identifying who the narrator is, and what the narrator is trying to tell us (through their voice or the voices of others) is crucial to understanding any literary work.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Consider the opening of the film Iron Man 3. ‘A famous man once said we create our own demons. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Who said that, what does that even mean, doesn’t matter. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>I said it because he said it’.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Who is the narrator? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>What is the narrator trying to establish? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>What does this piece of narration tell you about the rest of the film? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n More importantly, do you trust this narrator?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n In the Iron Man films, is Iron Man or Tony Stark the narrator? – Pixabay.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The term ‘narrator’ does have some synonyms. Although you’ll likely come across the term ‘narrator’ most often, it’s useful to be familiar with the synonyms that could be used interchangeably. Some of these synonyms are:<\/p>\n The narrator is a quasi-fictional speaker constructed for the purposes of the story. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>What is the meaning of ‘narrator’?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
‘narrator’ synonyms<\/h2>\n
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The function of a narrator<\/h2>\n