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Miss Prym's Psychological Approach

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The present research paper focuses on Miss Prym’s journey towards choosing the right path, through a psychoanalytical approach. In human beings, both, good and evil exist equally; we have to make our own choice, as Miss Prym has to face many crises to choose the right path, when tempted by an evil. Her psychological journey is carefully investigated in the present research paper. For this purpose Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical approach is applied and the result is that all the layers of Miss Prym’s mind are unveiled.
Key words: Psychoanalytical approach, good and evil, crisis, journey.
Introduction:
Paulo Coelho (1947), a Brazilian writer, is one of the world’s most widely read authors whose works have been translated in more than seventy …show more content…

Later on it was applied to literature. Basically psychoanalysis deals with the PSYCHE. Shakespeare tried to expose the minds of his characters in the form of Soliloquies so we can say that Shakespeare may be the first author to enter the minds of his characters .At that time Shakespeare did not know about the theories of psychoanalysis. It was Sigmund Freud who dared to analyze human psyche. As Felman says, “We normally tend to see psychoanalysis as the active practice performed upon the passive texts.” He also states that “psychoanalysis of literature creates a power struggle and so there are multiple …show more content…

For secondary sources the critical theory books and internet sources are utilized. The data is in the form of words, sentences, quotations etc. The data is classified and then organized carefully to enhance the semantic quality of the proposed research work. Discussion The society, the remote village of Viscos, in which the novel “Devil and Miss Prym” takes place, is an ideal society, a pure social set up with good human beings, who are living happily without any problems. In such a society the entry of a devil like personality is focused in the very beginning. “For almost fifteen years old bertha has spent every day sitting outside the door----- and she saw a stranger” The novel is about a girl, Chantal who is known as Miss Prym and astranger, the devil. There is no hero. Outwardly Miss Prym seems to be a very innocent, decent, cultured girl doing a job at a hotel (in the same hotel where the devil is about to stay). The devil is not a real devil but a stranger who tempts Miss Prym. The knowledge of evil disturbs her psyche. When Miss Prym was ignorant of the temptation, she was the happiest person, but now there is a challenge for

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