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A study of how the narative stance of The Inheritors by William Golding has helped me understand the central concerns of the novel, and shed light on major issues.
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The Inheritors Select a novel that has an interesting narrative stance and structure. Analyse carefully how this helped you understand the central concerns and indeed shed fresh light on major issues. 'The Inheritors' by William Golding is a novel which is entirely out of the ordinary. Set in prehistoric ages, it ponders the idea of what civilisation was like based 50,000 years ago. The novel is not based on purely archaeological and anthropological facts; it merely follows Golding's personal interpretation of when the homosapien succeeded the Neanderthal. The author's choice to tell the majority of the novel through Lok's perspective makes the reader completely involved, as Lok is the less adept of his People, and so we too share his limitations, and because he cannot deduce, we must make our own conclusions through his senses. The final chapter of the novel, however, follows a new angle, allowing the opinions of the homosapiens...
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