Identity between Assimilation and Self-Discovery: A Study of Michael Ondaatje The English Patient and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

Abstract

This research deals with Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (1992) and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) as a journey to self-discovery and to prove the identity after the characters' failure of understanding their assimilation in Europe The study is investigated by comparing the depiction of identity between assimilation and self-discovery in the two novels from the postmodernist and modernist perspectives respectively. The research starts with introduction, and then the methodology occurs. The discussion follows the method of analysis that is previously determined; it discusses how the identity interweaves between the assimilation and self-discovery. The paper ends with the conclusion which sums up the finding of the research