The point of view demonstrated in this passage is third-person omniscient narrator. The narrator provides insight into Elizabeth's thoughts and feelings while also conveying the thoughts and speeches of Mr. Collins, allowing for a broader understanding of the situation and the characters' motivations.
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
The idea of Mr. Collins, with all his solemn composure, being run away with by his feelings, made Elizabeth so near laughing, that she could not use the short pause he allowed in any attempt to stop him further, and he continued:
“My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every clergyman in easy circumstances (like myself) to set the example of matrimony in his parish; secondly, that I am convinced that it will add very greatly to my happiness; and thirdly—which perhaps I ought to have mentioned earlier, that it is the particular advice and recommendation of the very noble lady whom I have the honor of calling patroness. Twice has she condescended to give me her opinion (unasked too!) on this subject; and it was but the very Saturday night before I left Hunsford—between our pools at quadrille, while Mrs. Jenkinson was arranging Miss de Bourgh’s footstool, that she said, ‘Mr. Collins, you must marry. A clergyman like you must marry.”
from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Question
Use the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen to answer the question.
Which point of view is demonstrated in this passage?
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third-person omniscient narrator
third-person omniscient narrator
second-person narrator
second-person narrator
first-person narrator
first-person narrator
third-person limited narrator
third-person limited narrator
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