Character Patterns in" Palm East": A Novel by Baha Tahir

Abstract

This research is based on the study of personality patterns in Bahaa Taher novel “East of the palms” to find out the most important features of portraying characters within the narrative work, and to reveal the extent of the writer's proficiency in portraying the character within the appropriate moment.

The study aims to address the clues and functions of the characters in the novel "East of the Palms" and the consequent models generated as templates that can be placed characters and looked at and judged through them.

In this study, the researcher followed the approach of cultural criticism, which is concerned with criticizing the implicit patterns involved in cultural discourse in all its manifestations, patterns and forms, what is informal and non-institutional, and what is not, whether equally. It is a meaning of revealing not aesthetic as is literary criticism, but rather revealing what is hidden from under the masks of rhetorical / aesthetic.

Among the most important results of this research:

 The psychological transformation of the personality is related to environmental, psychological and social influences, as each personality is affected by the environment in which he grew up.

The characters are one of the most important elements that the writer relies on in writing the novel; they are the ones that shape the events, and through them the dialogue takes place.

Bahaa Taher succeeded in drawing his characters from the inside and the outside.

The types of characters in the novel varied due to the nature of the role of each of them within the narrative structure.