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ًWriting Beatrice - The Stream of Consciousness
Inside the mind of Beatrice, and her unconventional presentation
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Inside the mind of Beatrice, and her unconventional presentation
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Stream of consciousness is a style or technique of writing that tries to capture the natural flow of a character's extended thought process, often by incorporating sensory impressions, incomplete ideas, unusual syntax, and rough grammar.
As a narrative style it is used to depict how people think. The writing allows readers to “listen in” on a character's thoughts, and replicate the complicated pathways that thoughts take as they unfold and move through the mind.
Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart foreshadows this literary technique. Poe's story is a 1st person narrative told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed, and it is often read as a dramatic monologue
It does not follow ordinary rules of grammar and syntax because the thoughts are not often fully formed or change course in the middle or they are interrupted by another thought. An example is this moment where many thoughts were colliding inside Beatrice's head.
Stream of consciousness also makes use of associative thought, in this style of writing there is a transition between ideas that have loose connection, often based on character's personal experiences and memories, a fragmented observations that seem more accurate and real.
Writers might also use repetition to indicate fixation on a certain thought, or to act as a sign post, pointing readers towards significant themes and motifs. A primary example of this is the catch phrase “Without love, it cannot be seen”.
Interior monologues usually have a clear logical progression, and relate thoughts as coherent , but a stream seeks to portray the actual experience of thinking, in all its chaos and distraction to make the reader experience thoughts in the way that the character is thinking them
Just how far Ushiromiya Battler thought, in order to create a tale for her alone? The sheer intensity of his love is blinding, as he didn't want to write about her just for a personal sentiment, he really wanted her to exist happily, in everyone’s hearts until the end of time.
