a study of individual identity in marguerite yourcenar's novels

marguerite yourcenar turns to self-making in all her worksand regards it as the result of an evolutionary process. marguerite yourcenardesigns the basis of this self-making by creating the characters in her novelsso that the process of an independent viewpoint about self-making combines withthe expression for individual identity. she has analyzed human identity in theeffects taken from historical contents and myths. according to such viewpoint,the humans' interpretation about their essence and the relationship with theirenvironment is reflected in myths. from this viewpoint, explaining myths inliterature and the author's historical ideas are expressed with a closerelationship between the author and her artistic work as a model inself-making. this article tries to study analogically marguerite yourcenar'sroute in drawing individual identity and understanding self-making through thelayout of characters in her novels.