Question of Identity: Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle

Orhan Pamuk is a leading contemporary Turkish writer and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. In his novels he tackles certain universal themes, such as the search for a new identity, the conflict between East and West, the domination of Western culture and its impact on Turkish society, the spread of consumerism, feminism, the search for love and its vanity. Pamuk is influenced by the rich literary tradition of Turkey and at an equivalent time he is affected with the writers like Dostoevsky, Albert Camus, Miller and plenty of others. As a postmodernist author, Orhan pamuk’s fiction echoes the priority for the identity of someone. This novel The White Castle is studied for the exploration of the Question of identity like what is real identity of the person. Pamuk himself has faced the perplexity of identity as he is suspect by media of revealing the national sentiment. The protagonist’s Hoja and the Venetian traveler are not happy with their gift identity and within the course of their life they assume a replacement identity.


Introduction
The current Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines the English dictionary identity as "who or what else" or "characteristics, feelings or belief that set people apart from others." Identity is the characteristics of an individual or group that defines itself. "Identity refers to the whole style of equality within change, which is human life .... The pattern of all these changes continues to me" (Norman,p. 452) .The concept of identity crisis or delusion is elaborated by psychologist Eric Ericsson . Identity issues are within the personality of the individual. Because there is no, it can be discussed from different perspectives. Identity is a very broad term, with different aspects such as people, family, society, nationality, religion, caste, region, language, ethnicity, ideology, gender, etc. can be defined on the basis. Pamuk belongs to Turkey. His work has been translated in additional than sixty three languages worldwide. He has contributed within the Turkish literature by portraying the important state of affairs of Turkey He wrote ten novels; Among them are notable novels:"My name is red" (1998), "Snow" (2002), "Museum of Innocence" (2008) and others. He's a non-conformist writer. Pamuk not only create new ideas but also strive to win them over. He is a postmodern author. His work has the multiple narrators which is the element of postmodern literature. He is deeply privy to his Turkish roots and at identical time he needs to imbibe the trendy values conjointly. Several of his novels are set within the historical past of Turkey. There is intertextuality in his fiction. Several of his characters gift in one novel seem in alternative works conjointly. Pamuk worries\bothered about the question of identity in his fictions. He time and again ponders over the question of identity like what's the real identity of an individual. What is the role of tradition in shaping the identity? Secondly, he is a supporter, that is, he is a man of entertaining thinking and acting.
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It is rooted in thought and expression. Pamuk himself on Identity: The theme of impersonation used by Pamuk in The White Castle is recurring throughout the rest of its work. He was asked to speak in an interview why did he think that the idea of becoming someone else cropped up so often in his mind and fiction. Pamuk goes back to his childhood to explain his idea of identity. His brother Sevket was eighteen months older than him. They were both a competitor and his brother And his brother was a representative of authority over Pamuk. The older brother was really good at school and smarter than Pamuk. As a result, Pamuk has become a fan of being his brother. The strength and success of his brother impressed him greatly. As a child, Pamuk always tried to act as his older brother, who was stronger and more responsible than Pamuk. For example, in his novel The White Castle, the almost dialectical relationship between the two main characters, the Hoja and the European slave, is based on his actual relationship with his brother.
On Personal identity: Personal Identity of an individual relates to the self-image or mental model of oneself. It is a psychological relation that outlines the particular identity of the person. An individual has some inborn characteristics and qualities that outline his selfhood and identity.
There are bound distinguished qualities of individuals which create them totally different from one alternative. Individual identity is basically framed by a person's own selfhood, behavior and idiosyncrasies, so the person is identified as a unique one from others. A person's identity is thought from different angles like family, caste, religion, region, language then on. The question rises whether or not an individual is pleased with his/her own identity or not, because many time individuals as people deliberately lose their self and pursue for brand new ones as their ideal identity. Typically a personal has aspirations to assume the Ormukh describes physical alikeness and also the physical identities between the two persons. Externally, they two look same however internally they are quite completely different from one another. With the passage of your time, they share their internal identities with one another. The authority hands over the responsibility of the fireworks show at his son's wedding to the person referred to as Hoja, (master) and the slave who is that the verbaliser of the novel. Both, the verbaliser and his master, Hoja with success gift the fireworks show at the marriage ceremony and win the heart of the pasha. Whereas operating along, the verbaliser slave feels his master's interest in him, as he needs to be sort of a what I am?' Hoja and also the slave dreams their identities obtaining changed, particularly the slave is afraid that sooner or later Hoja would take possession of his identity and hightail it to Italia. The master desires to exchange their information with one another as a result of it's the sole distinction between the two persons. Once they become one in respect of data, they shall be no a lot of completely different persons. Identity crisis becomes outstanding within the plague episode. The plague breaks come in town and Hoja gets a little swelling of red spot below his navel which he thinks to be plague bubo. Before the mirror, each stands facet by facet and feels the putting similitude between them. Hoja scares the slave voice communication that he would take possession of his identity, as a result of once he shaves and also the slave grows his beard, the physical identities would be simply changed. Hoja knows each detail of the narrator's past life, thus he will simply take possession of his identity. The verbaliser gets swamped by the similitude between them once his appearance within the mirror thinking the two is one person. Additionally, master Hoja imitates the movements of the verbaliser that shocks the latter further. Hoja desires to require possession of his slave's spirits. He says: "Now I am like you" (Pamuk, TWC, 83). He additional scares the slave by saying: "I grasp your fear, I even have become you|" (Pamuk, TWC, 83). It is the master who is raring to exchange the identities; however the slave looks reluctant for that deal. The narrator expresses his concern within the following words: "He was attending to   and with the time, they share their internal things with one another that mix them along. The loss of identity makes an individual pursue a replacement one as within the case of the Venetian who holds his master's identity and the other way around.

Conclusion
The question of identity is a major topic in postmodern literature. As a postmodern novelist, Pamuk cleverly handles the issues of identity in his novels. His novels portray the image of identity from different angles. Identity is studied from an individual, collective or national point of view. The identity of the individual is highly important in the collective identity of society and country. Each person is different from others in some aspects that make up their identity. A person has different qualities that distinguish him from others. The novelist presents a man losing his identity and in search of a