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This 3 page paper looks at Orphan Pamuk’s novel The White Castle and the way in which the two main characters switch lives at the end, arguing that this is a critique of human personality and this unstable nature.
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contradictions and dichotomies, as seen with themes of east and west and the clash of cultures and ideas, but it may be argued that one of the most interesting events
is at the end, where the master; Hoja, and the scholar, who is also our narrator, change places, not only figuratively, but literally taking on each others life. The
concept of an unstable identity within the Ottoman Empire in Pamuks ottoman books is a common theme, which starts in White Castle. The story concerns an Italian scholar who
is travelling from Venice to Naples, who, while on the journey is taken prisoner by the Ottoman Empire by Turkish pirates. It is here that there is a fluidity or
an unstable aspect to the idea of personality that is first seen, but this may be excused, as it is undertaken in order to survive, where the scholar, who is
the narrator, outs himself forwards as a healer in order to preserve his life. The ability to see the narrator as having different skills and seen by others in a
differing light may be aided by the way in which he presents himself in the story. The approach is one using a retrospective, written as a memory of event that
had occurred earlier, with the narrator ever revealing his own name or identity, only aspects of personality and character or experiences that emerge in the way the subsequent events take
place are recounted. The same level of anonymity is seen with Hoja, the master, the term Hoja means master and the narrator never gives away his identity,. The ,main thrust
of the book is seen to revolve around the relationship between Muslim Hoja and the Christian slave. The slave is given to Hoja to teach him about western science. It
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