Breaking the fourth wall? No?

Also that guy isn't ugly enough to be Mr. Rochester.

>>3045616 (OP)

It's called an aside - as you already identified in your OP.

you fucking stupid cunt. Have you never heard of Google?

>>3045616 (OP)

You already had it; an "aside".

>>3045625
What's the difference between an aside and "Breaking the Fourth Wall"?

>>3045619
This is true. I don't know if there's something more specific though

>>3045629
I don't think they are different. An aside neccesarily breaks the fourth wall doesn't it?

Isn't it called authorial intervention, or something along those lines?

>>3045629
If it's a narrator saying it, it's not 'breaking the fourth wall' because the narrator is already on both sides of it. If the narrator is a character it's often assumed that the text you are reading is meant to be a manuscript that that character wrote, and if someone was writing an autobiographical manuscript then it would be perfectly reasonable for them to address the reader. If it's a 3rd person omnipotent narrator then his very existence sort of transcends the '4th wall' anyway.If another character directly addresses the reader then I guess that would be breaking the 4th wall, but I've never seen that done.

The concept of the 4th wall is really more of a stage/film thing anyway.

>>3045641
You might be thinking of 'narrative intrusion', which is where a 3rd person narrator breaks the narrative to make a judgement about something, generally a character.

Breaking the fourth wall nugga

A warning.

Fucking Dark Tower, man.

I am not very sure but I think aside is only a theatre term

direct address

>breaking the 4th wall
That sounds more like a film/stage term. It's a fucking book, which are the 3 previous walls?

>>3045616 (OP)
>>3045777

777 is right, for the most part.

It's interesting that you post an image from Jane Eyre, because there is actually a moment later in the novel where the use of "(Aside)" as you'd see it in drama is used, apart from Jane's semi-constant "Dear reader"s.

It's a pretty strange moment if you understand how asides function in drama and take into account that the novel is supposed to be Jane's own writing.

Direct address or an aside. An aside is more usually associated with theater.

It's a sign that you should stop reading.

>>3045802
film/tv/video games are more popular than reading so the the term has entered the popular vocabulary as the default term for anything acknowledging its own fictional nature in any way.

is it vocative case?

What's it called when the writer becomes a character? Oh yeah a shit cunt steven king move

>>3045819
Yes, I think it's direct address.

>>3045818
That's why I chose Jane Eyre

its called breaking the 4th wall

it's called poor writing