Possession A Romance A. S. Byatt First chapter

First chapter: Characters Quotations The “Past” The first chapter describes how Roland finds Ash’s letters. It is presented just into the fist chapter in order to create curiosity into the reader’s mind. Characters Quotations The “Past”

Characters Roland: the first chapter introduces one of the most important characters to the reader in a very unusual way. It starts describing his feelings and emotions, but whithout tell you whom are those emotions. The 3rd personal narrator let’s the reader make his conclusions only at the end. Ash: he was a writer . Roland studies Ash and his tests from which the reader understands that he was a very intelligent man with an organized mind. She: you know about her hrought Ash’s letters. She might be a very faitfull and interessan woman basiing on Ash’s opinion.

Quotations: Books: Pranks of priapus The grecian way of love Principi di scienza nuova Correspondence of Randoph Henry Ash Garden of Proserpina Writers: Charlyle George Eliot Gibben Venerabile Bede Cristina Rossetti Crabb Robinson

The past It is the most important semantic field of the chapter. As a matter of fact there aren’t a lot of references to the present in the narration. The readers feels disconnected to the present. The place and the time aren’t very important and when the speaking voice underlines them it seems that he wants to recall the reader to the reality. The chapter starts and ends specifiing when and where the character was but it doesn’t play an important role in the narration. Otherwise all Roland’s thoughts and actions are linked to the past. It seems that ther’s no time because the past is so near to the present in a very unrobable way.