Psychoanalysis of character of ‘Feroza’ under the social and cultural norms in the novel an American brat
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2018
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UMT, Lahore
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The study investigates the psychological state of a teenage girl living in a closed eastern society. The aim of the study is to find out the elements which cause a young girl from an Asian country such as Pakistan to be psychologically and mentally weak in making her decisions about her life. It can be observed that the migration from an eastern society to a western society causes a lot of uncertainty in an individual. In this study the following questions are answered that how the societal and cultural norms of a closed eastern society affect the psychology of a teenage girl and if the western settings make a girl more independent in her life. The theories such as the theory of psychoanalysis, the theory of archetypes and the theory of feminism are used to answer these questions. The conclusion of the research is that the suffering of a teenage girl is because of her parents and her very own society. The study has also shown that there is lack of communication between the parents and their daughters from the eastern countries which is the reason for the weak state of mind of their daughters. The most significant result from this study was that if the parents want to understand the psychology of their daughters they should communicate with them.