Viewing The World Differently

Among the novel writing skills, narrative perspective plays a vital role. The perspective of viewing the story has always been a disputing topic in the academic circle. With the development of literature itself, there is a new narrative perspective,"abnormal"narrative perspective. With such perspective, some abnormal subjects such as fools, madmen, idiots, children, the dead, non-human and so on, are often chosen as the narrators. With low IQ, deviant behavior, immature thought or defection in recognition, such people are defective and often regarded by normal people as outliers. They narrate the stories which are not consistent with the endowed identity as the narrative perspective is different from its content; the works with"abnormal"narrative perspective tends to have unique artistic charm.In the world literature history, there are many literary works with"abnormal"narrative perspective. The thesis focuses on these works and analyzes the"abnormal"narrative perspective in four aspects: firstly, it defines the concept of the"abnormal"narrative perspective, and classify it; the second part mainly explores the causes for the"abnormal"narrative perspective and analyzes them in four aspects; the third one shows the narrative features of the"abnormal"narrative perspective; the fourth one analyzes the narrative effects of"abnormal"narrative perspective in some aspects including unreliable narration, defamiliarization, irony and polyphony.With its own aesthetic features and unique aesthetic effects,"abnormal"narrative perspective can provide readers with fresh aesthetic feeling.