Character and the Novel

abstract accept achieve actual aesthetic allows artist autonomy become Chapter character choice clearly common complex concept concerned conditional consciousness consider context course create critical deal depends describe Dickens discussion distinction effect Esther example exist experience extreme fact feel fiction final freedom give given greater hand happens historical human identity imagination important individual interest James kind knowledge largely least less limited lives look mean merely mimetic mind moral narrative narrator nature never notion novel novelist object omniscient particular past pattern perhaps person philosophic play possible precisely present Princess problem question reader reading reality reason relation relationships relatively response result Sartre Sartre's seems seen sense simple single situation speak story stress structure surely tend theory things tion true truth turn universe whole wish