Originally posted by DARTH POWER
This sounded like you meant the whole book is like that:
But before then I said that 'Most of the RotS novel'.
Originally posted by DARTH POWER
Like I said we can pretty much assume the "This is Anakin Skywalker" and "This is Count Dooku" follow the same narrative style.And Im not sure I agree the whole rest of the novel is 3rd person narrative. I think its kind of clear when we are in the characters mind like the direct quote I posted of Dooku during the Obi-Wan/ Skywalker fight: "Dooku's felt himself blanch. Where had this come from?"
3rd person limited narration is a lot more subtle than directly stating that its from the characters perspective. At no point in Harry Potter does Rowling make a point of specifying the text is from his perspective, it just is. You are correct with that last quote, the way to tell 3rd person limited is if we have sentences like 'Dooku felt himself' and we only ever have Dooku's side of the exchange in the text up till it switches perspectives..
Originally posted by DARTH POWER
It switched from 3rd person narratives and back to the author as well. It really seems to me all the descriptions of characters were like Obi-Wan's.I agree a lot of the novel is in the 3rd person narrative, but I feel like its quite clear when we are in a character's head like this:
"In that pristine clarity, there is only one thing he must do.
Decide.
So he does.
He decides to win."
This will be alot less complicated if we just read the actual part in question.
'There came a turning point in the clash of the light against the dark.
It did not come from a flash of lightning or slash of energy blade, though there were these in plenty; it did not come from a flying kick or a surgically precise punch, though these were traded, too.
It came as the battle shifted from the holding office to the great Chancellor's Podium; it came as the hydraulic lift beneath the Podium raised it on its tower of durasteel a hundred meters and more, so that it became a laserpoint of battle flaring at the focus of the vast emptiness of the Senate Arena; it came as the Force and the podium's controls ripped delegation pods free of the curving walls and made of them hammers, battering rams, catapult stones crashing and crushing against each other in a rolling thunder-roar that echoed the Senate's cheers for the galaxy's new Emperor.
It came when the avatar of light resolved into the lineage of the Jedi; when the lineage of the Jedi refined into one single Jedi.
It came when Yoda found himself alone against the dark.
In that lightning-speared tornado of feet and fists and blades and bashing machines, his vision finally pierced the darkness that had clouded the Force.
Finally, he saw the truth.
This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most implacable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just-didn't-have it.
He'd never had it. He had lost before he started.
He had lost before he was born.
The Sith had changed. The Sith had grown, had adapted, had invested a thousand years' intensive study into every aspect of not only the Force but Jedi lore itself, in preparation for exactly this day. The Sith had remade themselves.
They had become new.
While the Jedi-The Jedi had spent that same millennium training to refight the last war.
The new Sith could not be destroyed with a lightsaber; they could not be burned away by any torch of the Force. The brighter his light, the darker their shadow. How could one win a war against the dark, when war itself had become the dark's own weapon?
He knew, at that instant, that this insight held the hope of the galaxy. But if he fell here, that hope would die with him. Hmmm, Yoda thought. A problem this is . . .'
In my opinion this is definately written in 3rd person limited narration. The entire passage is concerned with Yoda's thought process and includes Yoda's direct thoughts upon this realisation. The part I highlighted is a triple reinforcement of Yoda's perspective being dominant.