I recall that in Brave New World, the perspective changes rapidly between characters, sometimes as little as a single line of text is given then the perspective changes to someone else entirely. Why was that done?
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asked Apr 12, 2018 at 16:38
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3shmoop.com/brave-new-world/narrator-point-of-view.html– ValorumApr 12, 2018 at 16:40
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1I honestly don't get the question. Can you clarify it?– user65648Apr 12, 2018 at 18:52
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1This is a question that would be better asked at either writing.stackexchange.com or literature.stackexchange.com, dealing as it does with writing technique more than any science fictional content of the story.– JulesApr 12, 2018 at 19:12
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1@C.Koca: in the beginning, there is a few pages of very fast changes of point of view. The book switches between several characters in several locations, sometimes dwelling on a single character for a sentence or two before changing entirely. It's a unique thing that I'd never seen in print before– Michael StachowskyApr 12, 2018 at 23:09
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1This question is now being discussed on meta.– KevinApr 13, 2018 at 0:18
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The goal is to get as much information to the reader about the society as possible. So we hear from a lot of people in many areas, all supplying a bit more info.
In films, this would be like the opening that shows many people in rapid succession, each doing their own thing, all illuminating the world you're seeing.
A montage in print, effectively.
answered Apr 12, 2018 at 20:43
