{"id":324,"date":"2017-06-14T14:33:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T13:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/?page_id=324"},"modified":"2017-08-17T16:07:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T15:07:54","slug":"ideology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/?page_id=324","title":{"rendered":"Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every narrative is profoundly\u00a0ideological. This is because every narrative presents a worldview (or set of worldviews). Built into this worldview is a perception of how the world works, what human beings are like, which elements of life are noteworthy and\/or valuable, and so on. Many narratives present a worldview in order to question that worldview, to highlight its flaws, and even on occasion to demolish it entirely. This does not, of course, make them any less ideological. Yet neither does it make them more so. George Orwell\u2019s\u00a0<em>Animal Farm<\/em> is no more ideological in its narrative form than, say, Jane Austen\u2019s\u00a0<em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em> simply because it is so obviously\u00a0<em>about<\/em> ideology; it merely wears its ideological commitments more openly.<\/p>\n<p>A narrative\u2019s ideological commitments can be traced back and identified in relation to every one of the elements of narrative we have been exploring in this unit. A narrative\u2019s\u00a0<strong>plot<\/strong>, for instance, might distribute different roles and outlooks to its characters depending on such things as their gender, ethnicity or place in the social hierarchy. The standard \u2018adventure plot\u2019 of travelling far and wide, overcoming all kinds of obstacles, and returning finally to the patient and loyal arms of one\u2019s loved ones has tended to be reserved almost exclusively for male protagonists. It has been observed that women in many eighteenth- and nineteenth-century narratives, by contrast, can expect to find themselves by the end of a narrative in one of only two places: death or marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Much the same can also be said of a narrative\u2019s choice of <strong>narrators and focalizers<\/strong> (who is given the right to speak and be seen?), its <strong>narratees or implied audience<\/strong> (whose opinions are being addressed?), its processes of <strong>characterisation<\/strong> (what is deemed to be important about particular characters \u2013 the way they look? the way they think?),\u00a0and its <strong>storyworld<\/strong> (how important is our environment to who we are and how we behave?).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Return to <a href=\"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/?page_id=199\">Elements of Narrative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every narrative is profoundly\u00a0ideological. This is because every narrative presents a worldview (or set of worldviews). Built into this worldview is a perception of how the world works, what human beings are like, which elements of life are noteworthy and\/or valuable, and so on. Many narratives present a worldview in order to question that worldview, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":199,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-324","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions\/1507"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}