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In Machado de Assis's 'Dom Casmurro' (1899), the narrative perspective is famously constructed through Bento Santiago's retrospective first-person voice. What critical effect does this unreliable narration create for the reader?

It leaves the alleged adultery of Capitu with Escobar unresolved, exposing Bento's obsessive jealousy, subjective bias, and self-justifying paranoia. It provides irrefutable scientific proof confirming Capitu's guilt beyond all doubt. It presents an omniscient objective report compiled by an impartial ecclesiastical court. It reveals that Bento Santiago was an undercover police detective in 19th-century Rio de Janeiro.

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It leaves the alleged adultery of Capitu with Escobar unresolved, exposing Bento's obsessive jealousy, subjective bias, and self-justifying paranoia.

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