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This essay argues that narrativity, understood as a way of ordering and representing reality, profoundly shapes our understanding of history and experience. Hayden White challenges the conventional view of historical narratives as objective reflections of the past, proposing instead that they are literary constructions that impose meaning and coherence onto events. He explores how narrative structures, such as emplotment, formal argument, and ideological implication, influence the representation of historical reality. By analyzing different historical accounts, White demonstrates how the choice of narrative mode (e.g., tragedy, comedy, romance, satire) affects the interpretation of events and the construction of historical meaning. He concludes that the value of narrativity lies not in its ability to mirror reality, but in its capacity to provide a framework for understanding and interpreting the past.

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