{"id":737,"date":"2017-09-28T00:47:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T04:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=737"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:45:49","slug":"active-vs-passive-narration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/28\/active-vs-passive-narration\/","title":{"rendered":"Active vs. Passive Narration"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is interesting to compare Watson as a narrator of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” with the unknown narrator of “Lady Audley’s Secret”. Watson plays a much more active role as both a narrator and as a character, whereas the narrator in \u201cLady Audley\u2019s Secret\u201d was only there to observe the other characters. “Holmes laid his hand upon my arm. \u2018If my friend would undertake it there is no man who is better worth having at your side when you are in a tight place. No one can say so more confidently than I.\u2019\u201d (pg. 48) from \u201cThe Hound of the Baskervilles\u201d compared to just an omnipresent rendition of the events as in \u201cLady Audley\u2019s Secret\u201d. Watson will also be doing his best to be an accurate narrator because he has been sent on a mission for Holmes, so the reader will be able to observe the plot with a narrator that is paying close attention to everything around him. The reader gets detailed descriptions of the landscape and analyses of the other characters as Watson writes and reports back to Holmes. The narrator of \u201cLady Audley\u2019s Secret\u201d had no part in the action of the book, and also did not seem to follow one character in particular, and in \u201cThe Hound of the Baskervilles\u201d, Watson almost revolves around his interactions with Holmes. On page 27, Watson skipped over most of his day because it was not spent with Holmes: \u201cI therefore spent the day at my club, and did not return to Baker Street until evening. It was nearly nine o\u2019clock when I found myself in the sitting-room once more.\u201d It is only once Watson is distanced by more than a few miles from Holmes that the reader is given a more detailed description of what Watson is doing away from Holmes. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is interesting to compare Watson as a narrator of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” with the unknown narrator of “Lady Audley’s Secret”. Watson plays a much more active role as both a narrator and as a character, whereas the narrator in \u201cLady Audley\u2019s Secret\u201d was only there to observe the other characters. “Holmes laid … Continue reading Active vs. Passive Narration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}