Minds seem to already set a certain image. Without even realizing it, stereotypes have undeniably played an enormous role in individual lives. All Asians are good at math, all blondes are dumb, all Muslims are terrorists - these are all common stereotypes. In her Death on the Nile for example, Poirot’s arrogance while dealing with Egyptians is palpable. Nicolas Sarkozy in racism row after suggesting people can’t say ‘monkey’ anymore due to book renaming. Stereotypes And Racism In Agatha Christies Murder On The Orient Express. A biographical and inter-textual study of Agatha Christie also shows that she is known for her somehow belittling attitude toward the colonized people or as called today, the third world. An attempt here is to show that the narrator has been, to a high degree, inflicted with ideology of British complacency and pride, biblical penetration and racism. In this paper, we try to examine the ruling ideology through the act of narration of the story and thus assess the degree of being the same of the narrator and the implied author as representing the ideology ruling the narration. The narrator could exchange position from a third person-omniscient or -limited omniscient point of view to a first person one narrating through the eyes of one of the characters in the story. Implied author is generally defined as the ideology which rules the intellectual realm of the society in which the author lives and the narrator or in one sense the voice which narrates the story. The problem of distinguishing between narrator and implied author has always been challenging in the field of narratology. Sayyed Rahim Moosavinia 1, Alireza Khaleghpanah 2 2019 3(1): 11-19 | DOI: 10.14744/alrj.2018.02886 The Narrator and Implied Author in Agatha Christie’s "And Then There Were None": A Reader-oriented Approach
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