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Interior monologue - Coggle Diagram
Interior monologue
Definition:
Verbal expression of the stream of consciousness.
Characterized by lack of chronological order.
Narrator may be present.
Formal logical order may be lost.
Action within character's mind.
Immediate speech without introductory expressions.
Features
Compared to psychoanalyst's couch.
Narrator present within narration.
Character fixed in space, consciousness moves freely in time.
Action happens in present within character's mind.
Preference for "inner time" over "external time".
Direct Interior Monologue with Two Levels of Narration:
Objective, external level of narration.
Regular sentences with subjects, verbs, complements.
Second level within character's consciousness.
Irregular statements, elision of subjects, reversal of word order.
Direct Interior Monologue:
Uninterrupted flow of character's thoughts.
Narrator disappears.
Thoughts free to move backwards.
Absence of punctuation.
Extreme Interior Monologue:
Used by James Joyce in Finnegans Wake.
Narration inside character's dreaming mind.
Fusion of words, sometimes foreign, with free associations.
New expressions referencing all areas of human experience.
Indirect Interior Monologue:
Mixture of third-person and interior narration.
External time and character's mind linked.