![]() ![]() ![]() Through varying philosophies and methodologies, meaning in this text has been explored yet, these studies lack a crucial element in interpreting the text. The structuring of these characters with their ambivalent voices make a Bakhtinian study an appropriate methodology. The character voices also set up ambivalent relationships for example, the voices of lovers, Sarah and Maurice and the voices of a husband and wife, Henry and Sarah. Authorial voice is refracted by discourse between the characters as well as discourse through first person narration. ![]() Graham Greene, in The End of the Affair, utilizes the social contexts of speech characterization: the voice of the writer, a public servant, a detective, and a wife. ![]() Bakhtin suggests that this art, the ability to disguise authorial voice among the voices of distinct and developed characters with shifting positions, is unique to the novel. These masked characters set up dialogues and thoughts which not only oppose each other, but also oppose themselves because their views and positions are not static, but fluid. The characters in the novel are masked with dialogue, personalities, ideas, and words. The voice of the author permeates the novel, according to Mikhail Bakhtin, and this voice is not isolated to the words or convictions of a particular character. ![]()
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