Modern Classics and Gothic Tropes · Literary Analysis

The Unreliable Narrator

Deconstructing the techniques authors use to create doubt in the reader's mind regarding the truth of the story.

Key Questions

  1. 1How does a limited perspective force the reader to become an active detective in the text?
  2. 2What linguistic cues suggest that a narrator is intentionally omitting vital information?
  3. 3How does the revelation of an unreliable voice change our retrospective understanding of the plot?

ACARA Content Descriptions

AC9E10LT02AC9E10LA05
Year: Year 10
Subject: English
Unit: Modern Classics and Gothic Tropes
Period: Literary Analysis

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