O processo de subjetivação em narrativas digitais: um estudo sobre a experiência narrativa em The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Abstract

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a fantasy and action electronic RPG developed by CD Projekt RED. Its narrative style provides a larger space for subjectivity construction, because it is based mainly on an emergent approach, using dialogue choices that are responsible for players' interaction with the game system. Therefore, this work aims to seek for the contribution of the enunciative approach to language to discuss the construction of subjectivity in narratives in digital games, understanding how this larger space is given to subjectivity in interactive narratives. To do so, I present a reading of the work of Émile Benveniste, seeking to explore the notions of subjectivity that run through and underlie the aspects of her theory. The starting point is the connection between subjectivity and language to deal with discourse and the use of personal pronouns in its pragmatic dimension, thus I seek to explore the constitution of the subject and its individuality through the intersubjective/alterity relations, relating them with the thoughts of Gérard Dessons in Émile Benveniste, l’invention du discours (2006). It is from this study of the trinitarian device of “I-you-he” language, with the contribution of Dany-Robert Dufour (2000), that I propose the analysis of how these elements appear in The Witcher 3, identifying how the player interaction happens with the use of the language and the way how he or she appropriates of this language to experience the narrative and construct its historicity, putting itself as “I” in the discourse. Considering that, I investigate the subjectivity notion of digital games with the intention of observing how the thoughts of Benveniste provide elements that support the work of narrative designer, mostly regarding thinking questions as the subjectivity construction in narratives and enunciative space of the player.