The Hero and the Anti-Hero · Literary Analysis

Internal Conflict and Ambiguity

Analyzing how authors use internal monologues and unreliable narrators to create complex characters.

Key Questions

  1. 1How does a character's internal conflict drive the external plot of a story?
  2. 2In what ways does an unreliable narrator challenge the reader's perception of truth?
  3. 3How does moral ambiguity in a protagonist affect the reader's empathy?

Common Core State Standards

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.5
Grade: 10th Grade
Subject: English Language Arts
Unit: The Hero and the Anti-Hero
Period: Literary Analysis

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