The representation of human psychology has never failed to get the attention of critics when they find interesting fictional characters trying to reflect reality. John Steinbeck, an American author, ...portrays life-like characters in his realistic novels.One of his literary works, The Pearl is a striking novel published in 1947. The story concerns with a tragedy of a pearl diver named Kino and his wife, Juana. The story is spun around the themes of greed, poverty, power politics, exploitation, and so on. Juana, the female protagonist of the novel The Pearl, carries paradoxical traits in her, unlike the other women of her community. Her difference is observed and amplified in the story and that demands to be understood using Carl Jung’s archetypal concept of animus. Thus, in order to appreciate her design as in the hands of Steinbeck, this research article aims to render a psychological character study of Juanato understand her better in her cluttered colonial situation.
Canadian literature, in general, consists of two mainstreams, French and English writings. French writings in Canada often describe Quebec and English writings in Canada often describe Ontario. The ...Nobel Laureate Alice Munro paints the rural Ontario in most of her works. They are very regional and often becoming the colourful threads of a national dream. She was once called as a regional writer for her regional descriptions. Reading her in deep, a reader can understand the supreme universal themes. She gives clear picture of landscape, environment and climatic condition in her works. She focuses more on places than on human characters. Her works frequently centres on the culture of rural Ontario, Canada. The descriptions of those regional elements spring from the joys and sorrows of the local people and their longings to bring about healthy changes. The layers of Munro's works are simultaneously the old and the new and the regional and the national. Hence, Alice Munro's short story Collection Dear Life can be called as "Literature of Ontario."
