THE ARTISTIC EMBODIMENT OF ISSUES OF IDENTITY AND PERSONALITY CRISIS IN JONATHAN COE’S NOVELS

Abstract

This article analyzes Jonathan Coe’s literary characters, who experience crises of identity and personality in his novels. Mary in the author’s novel “The Accidental Woman” and Robin in “A Touch of Love” are characters withdrawn into their own “worlds”. They embody modern people, distant from their desires, aspirations, and dreams, living in mistrust and despair, and facing an identity crisis. The Winshaw family in the novel “What a Carve Up!” also experiences a similar fate. The author illustrates English society through the example of this family and emphasizes the fate of “Britishness”. It has been established that although studies of Jonathan Coe’s novels analyze and interpret issues distinguished by certain scholarly innovations, the issue of identity and personal crisis has not become a separate object of study. This fact can be considered an indicator of the importance of the problem raised in the article and the appeal of the topic. It has been studied that the lack of identity isolates a person from themselves and from society. Therefore, the study and research of Jonathan Coe’s work is relevant from a scientific perspective. National identity is primarily the main idea determined by the national image of the world and history in a certain historical period. Identity carries a system of values in itself as the essence of the people and the nation, the ideal form of its existence. Literature presents an incredible subject in terms of studying the problem of identity. It has been demonstrated that J.Coe reflects the problem of national identity and identity crisis as the changing ideals and fears of society. In the novels “The Accidental Woman” and “A Touch of Love”, the loss of an individual’s social and existential identity leads to a crisis of identity and identity. This article analyzes all three novels, assessing their formulation of the problem in light of moral, ethical, and socio-social contexts. The author presents the issues of indifference and neglect raised in the novel “What a Carve Up!” alongside the moral and ethical problems, explaining them as an identity crisis.