Wolf Hall

The Narrative Voice

Bue Ioana-Mdlina
Chindri Nicolae
 Historical novel

Limited-omiscient narrator

Third-person narrative

Present tense-direct expirience of the ev

It created immediacy.

Some of these things are true and some of

them lies. But they are all good stories.
In England there is no mercy for the poor. You
pay for everything, even a broken neck.

It keeps the reader very close to the

action of the text.
Mantel does not use 16th century English.

Wolf Hall is a novel with a clear and

believable realism

It rewrites the history of England from

1527 to 153

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