Omniscient Narrator

How does the third-person omniscient narrator have an effect on the novel?

Understanding the narrator of a novel is a essential in order to understand what is going on. Properly interpreting the narrator, can give the readers inferences on the validity of his/her narration and the sanity of the narrator, by exposing to the audience any deceiving views the narrator may obtain. In Brave New World, there is an omniscient third person narrator, because of this the audience can generate a trust with the narrator since he knows everything about everyone. The narrator not only knows what people think but also knows why they thinks that certain way. The well rounded narrator that has witnessed all the characters development and experiences, allowing him to have an unbiased view towards a certain topic, because of his constant exposure to different perspectives. 

The technique of free indirect quotation is used by Huxley in order for the narrator to truly express to the audience that he/she knows a lot about the certain character. This in depth analysis of the character done by the narrator, almost fools the audience into thinking that they are reading a specific characters though processes in a certain situation. Even though the narrator is unclear, the novel has a constant shifting point of view. The novel can include point of views of characters such as: John, Lenina, Bernard, Helmholtz, etc. It is clear when the point of view is from a specific character because Huxley has clearly created very diverse main characters that all have very different thinking processes and beliefs. So when the narrator is narrating with a John's point of view, it is clear to the audience what John thinks about the Brave New World, for example it is his point of view when he arrives for the first time to the new society. We interpret what he thinks of the world through quotations of Shakespeare, and the narrators descriptions of his actions. Another plus, to the shift between the narrators point of view, is that the audience gets a bit of insight to most of the main characters point of view. This is a way for there to be absolutely no bias in the way the story is being told, because it leaves it all up to the audience to decide with who's point of view they want to go with.

In the end the narrator provides for an accurately told story with now shortcuts, or any attempts of trying to influence the readers attitude towards the topics addressed in the novel. The third person omniscient narrator helps the unbiased truth be told by giving multiple point of views that come from diverse characters that many times have nothing in common other than living in the same time period. The characters can be free to interpret whatever they like about the novel, since nothing is telling them what to think. This style of narration is very unique, because it can allow the audience to infer weather Brave New World is a Utopia or Dystopia.