Document Type : Research paper
Author
yazd uni
Abstract
The novel ‘French Perfume’ by Amir Taj Al-Sir (born in 1960) is the reflection of a segment of the Sudanese society that lives in the state-ignored Missing District while tackling socio-economic and psycho-cultural problems. To get rid of life-time imposed pressures and meet the needs of life, the hero of the novel, Ali Jorjar, takes certain steps. What he does can be interpreted through the theory of needs proposed by the American psychologist Henry Murray. According to this theory, needs are induced by the pressures of life, and human beings respond to those needs in various ways. By defining the theory of needs and using a descriptive-analytic method, this research aims to detect the types of pressure that have posed needs to the hero and to mark those pressures that are responded to. As the results indicate, social, economic and political problems, which are in the Alpha Press category, lead to psychological pressures, categorized as Beta Press. These pressures, in turn, lead to certain needs, like the needs felt by the protagonist of the novel. He tries to overcome external and internal pressures by meeting such secondary needs as understanding, domination, pretention, libido, reprobation, self-restraint, respect, invulnerability, affection and pugnacity. In spite of his attempts, he ends up in a character break-up.
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