The Psychological Orientation Towards Growth in Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet" Page: 4
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for Darley has love affairs with Melissa, Justine, and
Clea, and the Quartet ends with Darley's artistic
fulfillment. To conclude Chapter Two, I represent Darley's
growth by examining four of his descriptions of landscape
in which he characterizes the growth process. In one
description, Darley portrays nature as mechanistically
dictating human will. In another, Darley views the
psyche as growing by incorporating primarily pleasurable
experiences. In a third, Darley emphasizes the dark or
destructive aspects of psychological behavior. Finally,
in a sequence involving the wounding of Clea, Darley
realizes that both positive and negative experiences
further psychological growth.
In Chapter Three, "Narouz's Evil," I examine the
darker side of the growth process. I begin the chapter
by considering dark principles of growth in various
characters, including Capodistria, who states that the
universal process has both dark and light principles.
The body of Chapter Three relates the unhappy story of
Narouz, whose love for Clea is unrequited and whose life
ends psychologically unfulfilled. Despite his unhappy
life, I demonstrate that Narouz's psyche is clearly
oriented towards the bright principles of growth.
In my brief Chapter Four, "Justine's Guilt," I
show how Justine's nymphomania, associated with her
having been raped as a child, is the result of a
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Fordham, Glenn Wayne, Jr. The Psychological Orientation Towards Growth in Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet", dissertation, May 1981; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330626/m1/4/?q=war: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .