STRUCTURE
In this hypertext we
find that, hand in hand with the characters of the novel we find structure
issues.
First of all I noticed
that, as many hypertext critics pointed out, unlike traditional novels, in
which you follow a straight line from the beginning to the end, in hypertext
there is a whole labyrinth spreading at your sight, which means that there are
as many stories as choices you can make in reading the novel.
From the very
beginning of the hypertext (even in the introduction) we have to choose the
point of view from which we want to read the hypertext (either a thief, a
customer, the bank owner, or the bank president) and the novel will be shown to
you from a completely different
perspective since you are seeing what the character is seeing and you
are experiencing what this character is experiencing.
This perspective has
also been given in other narratives in which a character is the narrator at the
same time but, despite you can find books in which there is a shifting in
the point of view of the narrator,
switching from one character to another, or even to an omniscient narrator, who
tells us the story from the point of view of an “outsider” is not as usual as
in hypertext.
However, this
“narrator-shifting”, that we can also find in novels, will never be as fast as
in hypertext or, if not, as “reader-directed” since we depend on the choices
the author has already made for us in order to get to the end of the story. In
this hypertext you can see the whole story from one perspective, and once you
got to the end this character gets to, go back to the beginning and read the
novel from another point of view that will take you to a completely different
ending.
Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© José Nicanor Liberos Mascarell
jolimas@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València
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