Themes -- Narration

Themes -- Narration

Narrative: both the self-consciousness with which characters in the novel attend to their narratives, and the larger question of how its events are controlled through their telling.

Introduction 13 and note ("I have changed no portion of the story") [1831 only]
Letter 4.8 and note ("My tale conveys in its series internal evidence")
1.3.4 and note ("I see by your eagerness")
1.3.8 and note ("The most interesting part of my tale")
1.4.3 and note ("Wretchedly")
1.5.6 and note ("I did not speak")
1.5.9 and note ("The present season was indeed divine")
1.6.6 and note ("I fear, my friend")
1.6.6 and note ("Preliminary circumstances")
2.2.7 and note ("He thus began his tale")
2.5.1 and note ("I now hasten")
3.1.5 and note ("You, my friend")
3.1.5 and note ("The journal of Clerval")
3.1.8 and note ("Perished")
3.1.8 and note ("I will proceed with my tale")
3.6.1 and note ("Until my own life, or that of my adversary, were")
3.6.2 and note ("Everywhere I turn")
3.6.4 and note ("What remains of my hideous narration")
3.6.4 and note ("No creature ... history of man")
3.6.5 and note ("They had called me mad")
3.6.6 and note ("The story is too connected")
3.6.6 and note ("Unmingled with disbelief")
3.6.7 and note ("You do not credit my narrative")
Walton 1 and note ("August 26th")
Walton 1 and note ("Appearance of the simplest truth")
Walton 2 and note ("Corrected and augmented")
Walton 3 and note ("Destined for some great enterprise")
Walton 10 and note ("Examining my past conduct")
Walton 10 and note ("Actuated by selfish and vicious motives")