Time and Place in Novel: Anywhere (Place) - Thus Far Everything in Our Galaxy Has Worked Constantly That Based On Some

Nari Ali Mhamad
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Rise of the English Novel
Tayeb Abdulrahman Abdullah, MA
January 5th, 2022
Time and Place in Novel

In the novel, authors have an unlimited imagination in the limited time and place that most of the
time they want to describe the situations of an individual (a point in common between
philosophers and novelists). But novelists have paid greater attention to the individual than it had
been common before, and novelists have the individualization of character. Individualization of
character needs an acquaintance about making time, place, and plot….. To plant the features of a
particular individual in character, therefore, we just analyze time and place in the novel.
The question is, what is the time and place? How do we use time and place? Have we any
analysis for time apart from a place?
Time and place is not just a subject and argumentation in this genre of literature; in science, time
exists physically, not mystically, time has a direct connection to space, and our planet or our
galaxy stands on two things that science calls the twin paradox (time and space). And if someone
can detect and attend to creature existence and their life connected to what? , he/she realizes
every creature and every side of this galaxy can stay on and keep existing by supporting time
anywhere (place). Thus far everything in our galaxy has worked constantly that based on some
rules, as Einstein says “God does not play dice”; also we cannot change those rules. In the real-
life the creator of time, space, place, rules… is God or some people say nature, but in the novel,
the creator is a novelist, he introduces, explains his purpose, and make some rules that make
readers feel the existence of character in reader’s life and one of the main point is individualizing
time and place with a situation of character because it is characterization reliance upon
presentation of background in a circle of finite time after this readers or audience can realize
character use a way to cerebrate and set plan to solve the problems or anything that gathering
around a character in a frame of time and place. In the novel character without position and time
does not exist, also character without thinking does not exist for supporting this sentence.
Descarte said, “I think, therefore I am”.
In the novel time has a different role from time in other genres of literature to continue the
process of narration and making a plot, and time is the heart of the plot because sometimes
novelists make plot by playing with time and when the author changes the time process of
accidents it means they want to develop their plot and make stronger his/her target or give more
meaningful purpose, also it is a kind of technique in the novel which is supported by the time.
The time in real life and novel is very diverse, the shape of the time in real life is a limitless
picture, and an individual has a question and explanation to his/her decisions, remorses,
pain, and transformations…. As time goes by. But in the novel, the shape of the time has
many different pictures, for example, a novelist can use 5 days of a character’s life to explain 50
years of an individual’s life because the novel has a considerable length of play with time, place,
innovation in making events and narration…. And this point attracts us to the idea: the novel is a
summarization of time and memories that a character identifies with his/her identity. For
supporting these concepts of time in real life and the novel, Locke says “The individual was in
touch with his own continuing identity through the memory of his past and thoughts and
actions”.
The image of time appears when it connects with a place; this sentence is right for the novel.
Description and identification of place in the novel are different from other genres; the attraction
of readers to an environment means attracting readers to some questions, why did he decide to
leave? How did he grow up in there? Why does this place look weird?.... And many other
questions refer to the character having a strong connection with the environment, and this is for
the similarity between the character and the individual characteristics, for example, Moll
Flanders and Robinson Crusoe much more completely to their environment than is the case with
the previous fictional characters.
In conclusion, the character can feel he exists after he/she can think and identification of his/her
identity or personality depends on the time then he/she find the cause and effects, according to
Descartes, Locke, and Hume, as time goes on, individual can identify and introduce his/her
identity or realize that he/she expresses their individuality through anything they have,
Afterward, he/she find causes and effects. Hume: “Had we no memory, we never should have
any notion of causation, nor consequently of that chain of causes and effects, which constitute
our self or person”.
Sources:
The Rise of the English Novel by Ian Watt
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

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Nari Ali Mhamad

Time and Place in Novel

analysis for time apart from a place?

Descarte said, “I think, therefore I am”.

the previous fictional characters.

our self or person”.

The Rise of the English Novel by Ian Watt

The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

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