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Following up on my previous question, "How to make the villain's motives understandable if his logic is flawed?", how can I let the reader know that the lack of logic is on the character's side, in...
#4: Post edited
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Monica Cellio
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2020-11-20T19:14:49Z (about 4 years ago)
updated link, integrated edit
Following up on my previous question, ["How to make the villain's motives understandable if his logic is flawed?"](https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/35965/how-to-make-the-villains-motives-understandable-if-his-logic-is-flawed), how can I let the reader know that the lack of logic is on _the character's_ side, instead of the reader thinking that I couldn't give a better motivation to him?Usually, to achieve that, I would simply make any character say something like: "That makes no sense!" However, the problem is that this villain doesn't even tell his motives. He keeps it all inside. It is _shown_ (not told) to the reader, but not to the characters.How can I manage this?* * ***Edit:** Forgot to specify that although the narrator knows what happens to any character, the narrator can't know what they think. Sorry for the confusion.
- Following up on my previous question, ["How to make the villain's motives understandable if his logic is flawed?"](https://writing.codidact.com/questions/28121), how can I let the reader know that the lack of logic is on _the character's_ side, instead of the reader thinking that I couldn't give a better motivation to him?
- Usually, to achieve that, I would simply make any character say something like: "That makes no sense!" However, the problem is that this villain doesn't even tell his motives. He keeps it all inside. It is _shown_ (not told) to the reader, but not to the characters. Although the narrator knows what happens to any character, the narrator can't know what they think.
- How can I manage this?
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T08:45:55Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/35967 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Yuuza
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2019-12-08T08:45:55Z (almost 5 years ago)
Following up on my previous question, ["How to make the villain's motives understandable if his logic is flawed?"](https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/35965/how-to-make-the-villains-motives-understandable-if-his-logic-is-flawed), how can I let the reader know that the lack of logic is on _the character's_ side, instead of the reader thinking that I couldn't give a better motivation to him? Usually, to achieve that, I would simply make any character say something like: "That makes no sense!" However, the problem is that this villain doesn't even tell his motives. He keeps it all inside. It is _shown_ (not told) to the reader, but not to the characters. How can I manage this? * * * **Edit:** Forgot to specify that although the narrator knows what happens to any character, the narrator can't know what they think. Sorry for the confusion.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-05-07T02:27:39Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 52