Analysis of the characters in the novel Al-Bagh by Bushra Al-Khalfan(A study of the behavioral nature of personalities)

Abstract

Analysis of the behavioral patterns and psychological models of the characters in the novel “The Novel of Al-Bagh by Bushra Al-Khalfan”; By monitoring the psychological features of the character, identifying the features of its psychological structure, and the impact of this on the diversity of its narrative patterns in the novel. The narrative discourse narrates several psychological patterns that reveal different crises and traumas, and some of them are even characterized by abhorrent and abnormal behaviors. Analyzing these behavioral patterns and psychological models upon which the novel’s characters are based is a revelation of their human behaviors and the psychological phenomena that result from them.

 The study aimed to conduct a psychological and behavioral analysis of social groups experiencing events specific to their reality, full of marginalization, societal alienation, and human oppression. These events contributed to making these characters poor models characterized by psychological imbalance.

 The novel presented examples of alienated and lost characters on whom social conditions and circumstances imposed loss and oppression, which led them to lack self-actualization and lack of self-identity. The novel as a whole is a reflection or creative vision of the real reality of the lives of immigrants who survived from their marginalized social reality to another reality in which they thought of salvation, and in the new reality of exile they face conditions that are more marginalized and oppressive than the past conditions from which they fled.

 In the novel, the writer used the place symbolically to indicate psychological alienation. The writer went to great lengths in symbolizing through “The Rising Sun” the alienation of the contemporary person who is marginalized in this world, in the face of all the cultural and social changes that he encounters.

 The characters chosen by the writer Bushra Al-Khalfan in her novel belong either to the socially oppressed class, or to the economically middle class, and perhaps this choice has its creative justification in that these characters are vibrant with movement, life, and psychological conflict.

 The two researchers decided to rely on the descriptive analytical approach in order to describe and analyze the types of narrative characters. It is an approach that relies on extrapolating the narrative discourse of the novel, describing it, and trying to uncover the reasons behind those behaviors, while using some of the tools of the psychological approach to know the psychological models that exist in the characters. the novel.