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It can be said that the majority of all significant characters in a literary work have an identity, which is developed in order to convey the author's message. Giving an individual an identity enables it to 'talk' to the reader.
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It can be said that the majority of all significant characters in a literary work have an identity, which is developed in order to convey the author's message. Giving an individual an identity enables it to 'talk' to the reader. Therefore, we can see that a character with a personal identity is significant in a literary work, and does not merely coexist with other characters in a literary work. This aspect of personal identity is brought out in Milan Kundera's Identity and in Tim O' Brien's The Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong in 'The Things They Carried'. The loss / gain of personal identity seems to be the common theme in both texts. The character of Chantal in Kundera's Identity loses her individuality due to social conformity and the character of Mary Anne gains her identity, which was also lost due to social conformity. Though both texts deal with...
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