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In modern fiction most of the novelists can easily be identified with one or more of the characters of their novels, especially with the protagonist. To have a better understanding of these novels one should know the novelists themselves because most of the major events of the novelists' lives have been presented in their works. This has not been studied accurately and scholarly and it has never been studied from a psychological point of view. This study, therefore, tries to examine selected modern English novels in which the novelists disguise themselves for certain reasons behind their works and can be identified with their protagonists or one of the characters. Two writers are selected for this study; they are: Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. The study falls into three chapters and a conclusion as follows: Chapter One is introductory. It sheds light on the English autobiographical novel, giving a brief account of its appearance, development and major representatives. Chapter Two is devoted to Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, and Mrs. Dalloway and it is divided into three sections. Section One gives a brief account of the life of Virginia Woolf and her fictional works. Section Two gives a detailed analysis of the similarities between the Ramsay family and Woolf's own family, trying to explore the reasons and the writer’s objectives behind this technique. Section Three handles Woolf's other novel Mrs. Dalloway, examining the two main characters in the novel Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith, who are in certain points, the fictional egos of Woolf herself. Chapter Three deals with James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and is also divided into three sections: Section One deals with Joyce’s life with this novel in mind. Section Two gives a simple introduction to the novel. Section Three examines the similarities between the protagonist Stephen Dedalus and James Joyce and how Joyce employed them in a successful way to criticize his society. The last part of the study is the Conclusion which tries to sum up the results of the study.
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