Features and Cognitive Aspects of Omniscient Narrator in Fiction

The narrator in fiction is someone who tells the story. Everything in the story is related to him/her and all components are affected him/her. There is no narrative without a narrator. The narrator is someone who gives us the plot, makes characters and tells events ahead. There are different types of narrator: third-person narrator, intervening narrator, Omniscient narrator, contributing narrator, seducer narrator, reliable narrator and unreliable narrator every one of which has their own characteristics. The "omniscient narrator" can "describe the location," "identify the characters" and have "personal statement". This descriptive analytical research method uses library resources to examine the cognitive aspects of "omniscient narrator" in fiction. As it turns out an omniscient narrator can be a third-person narrator. However the relation­ship is not necessarily symmetrical. Likewise the omniscient narrator is always an intervening narrator but a third-person narrator is not necessarily omniscient.