FOCALISATION
Point of view or perspective
How the author manipulates the perspective of the reader or the reader's
focus.
Genette and Todorov's classification:
•Zero focalisation : omniscient narrator. The narrator tells all about the
story, he/she knows all the details; the narrator is like God. The
narrator give the impression around he/she dominates on the story.
•Internal focalisation : the narrator speaks in first person or third person
too, to telling the story. The narrator tells what seeing, thinking, feeling
and saying; the point of view is situated into the character.
•External focalisation : the narrator tells the external aspects about the
story, so, the narrator has the reader's attention. Over the characters,
the narrator doesn't know nothing except the others characters speak
or the narrator deduces others behaviours.
Focalisation with a camera:
•Zero: Vision from behind.
•Internal: Vision within.
•External: Vision from without.