Interior Monologue and Stream of Consciousness in Literature

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Stream of Consciousness Techniques

The Interior Monologue: Free Direct Discourse

Free direct discourse is the most experimental technique. There is no narrative voice in order to imitate how our mind works. The intention is to give the reader the impression that they are inside the character’s mind; there is no intervention of the narrator. The narrator does not appear; there is no mediation. The first person to use the interior monologue was a French novelist, and British modernist writers adopted

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