Abstract
Orhan Pamuk is a leading contemporary Turkish writer and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. In his novels he tackles certain universal themes, such as the search for a new identity, the conflict between East and West, the domination of Western culture and its impact on Turkish society, the spread of consumerism, feminism, the search for love and its vanity. Pamuk is influenced by the rich literary tradition of Turkey and at an equivalent time he is affected with the writers like Dostoevsky, Albert Camus, Miller and plenty of others. As a postmodernist author, Orhan pamuk’s fiction echoes the priority for the identity of someone. This novel The White Castle is studied for the exploration of the Question of identity like what is real identity of the person. Pamuk himself has faced the perplexity of identity as he is suspect by media of revealing the national sentiment. The protagonist’s Hoja and the Venetian traveler are not happy with their gift identity and within the course of their life they assume a replacement identity.
Highlights
The current Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines the English dictionary identity as "who or what else" or "characteristics, feelings or belief that set people apart from others." Identity is the characteristics of an individual or group that defines itself
The pattern of all these changes continues to me" (Norman, p. 452) .The concept of identity crisis or delusion is elaborated by psychologist Eric Ericsson (1902–1994)
His work has been translated in additional than sixty three languages worldwide. He has contributed within the Turkish literature by portraying the important state of affairs of Turkey He wrote ten novels; Among them are notable novels:"My name is red" (1998), "Snow" (2002), "Museum of Innocence" (2008) and others
Summary
The current Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines the English dictionary identity as "who or what else" or "characteristics, feelings or belief that set people apart from others." Identity is the characteristics of an individual or group that defines itself. In The White Castle, the two look alike persons exchange their identities and complete lives when surfing an extended psychological state. The novelist presents the subject of personal identity in two different ways through the two main characters of the novel. The novelist successfully understands the difficulty of exchanging identities between the main protagonist, Hoja (the master) and his narrator, the two main characters.
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