Phantastes · Character
The Speaker
A rhetorical or narrative voice within the text.
minor
First appearance: xii
The Speaker's tie to Unknown Narrator is one of the pressures that moves Phantastes—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
The wise woman consulted by the brothers, who foretold the narrator's coming and advised them to forge their own armor.
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With Unknown Narrator (social): The Speaker is a mysterious orator who addresses the narrator with cryptic, philosophical pronouncements. With Unknown Narrator (social): The Speaker is a mysterious orator who addresses…
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Relationship types
- Social
- Other
Character groups
- Fairy-Tale and Mythic Figures
- Protagonist
- Mirror and Fairy Lovers
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Rising action.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
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- Unknown Narrator
social · ambivalent
The Speaker is a mysterious orator who addresses the narrator with cryptic, philosophical… How this plays out →
- Unknown Narrator
social · ambivalent
The Speaker is a mysterious orator who addresses the narrator with cryptic, philosophical… How this plays out →
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See The Speaker in xii