Third person point of view
When the narrator is referring to a person or people, the third person point of view is used.
- All academic writing, mostly advertising, many novels & most quotations are written in the third person.
What does POV mean?
Meaning of POV: Point of View means what the narrator is trying to communicate to his/ her audience through the story. With the help of the author’s viewpoint, we get to know which person or character is experiencing the event happening in the story. It determines how much the reader should know at one given point in time. Essentially, point of view refers to the “eyes” of the narrative voice that tell us the author’s vision from which the story is being presented.
Example: In the movie Maleficent, we get to know how the story unfolds from the negative or the gray character in the story portrayed by Maleficent instead of Aurora, the other main female protagonist. We get to know how even an evil character can have some good traits.
Through this, we understand how the story can be seen from a different angle & how it also leads to the audience getting to know the other point of view. This other point of view also enables the viewer to be much more engaged in the story & gives us unseen information & opinions.
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