Shadow in Alice Munro’s Fits and Child’s Play

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Alice Munro, Archetype, Carl Jung, Dark, Shadow, Unconscious

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Suparna Karkun
Research Scholar Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr. Anoop Kumar Tiwari
Assistant Professor Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India

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The Canadian writer Alice Munro’s story collections are replete with intrigue and intense anticipation of diverse emotions because of her unique technique of going back and forth in time. Her stories are tantalizingly edgy and explore the psyche of each of her limited number of characters by delving deep into them. Her characters dark in shade as they are, in the stories “Twist” and “Child’s Play” conform to the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung’s major archetype of the SHADOW. This paper aims to explore the dark realms of Jung’s SHADOW and identify them in the major, enigmatic characters of Peg, Marlene and Charlene by Alice Munro.

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Suparna Karkun, and Dr. Anoop Kumar Tiwari. “Shadow in Alice Munro’s Fits and Child’s Play”. The Creative Launcher, vol. 1, no. 6, Feb. 2017, pp. 118-26, https://www.thecreativelauncher.com/index.php/tcl/article/view/428.
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