REALISTIC RENDERING OF SELF-CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IN A. S. BYATT’S POSSESSION: THE PRESENTATION OF VICTORIAN VERSUS CONTEMPORARY IDEAS OF MAN, FAITH AND LOVE

The realistic rendering of Self-Conscious Thought in A. S. Byatt’s Possession is an evidence success making abstract ideas concrete. Possession, as encyclopedia theories and thoughts, Victorian or modern, a novel which are less obtrusive the author’s presence intrusive. twentieth-century part embodies confrontation with modern literary thoughts different nature than incarnated Victorians i.e. George Eliot’s fiction. Although such difficult to be turned into immediate daily concerns yet they fit personal dilemmas gain sense urgency. Byatt, successfully, represents universal man, faith love, skeptic background this novel. In addition, while Eliot begins generalize these authorial voice, Byatt knows that have become equivocal, thus overthrowing authority author.