Identity in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North :: Season Migration North

Personality in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration toward the North Period of Migration toward the North by Tayeb Salih recounts to the tale of a man looking for a personality he was ignorant he had lost. Through his developing comprehension of Mustafa Sa'eed's life, the focal character in the end accommodates his own personality clashes. All through Salih's epic the fundamental character's personality is indistinct. While the peruser finds out much about his experience: instructive, familial, and proficient, his name is never referenced. A last name is utilized concerning his family, yet is never concerned him. In once example he is alluded to by another character as effendi (85). This expression, in any case, is an Arabic title generally equal to sir as opposed to a name. The focal character's anonymity serves to concentrate consideration on another character with whom he builds up an uncomfortable fellowship: Mustafa Sa'eed. Mustafa depends the primary character with his undertakings after his demise, including the way in to a private chamber. At the point when the focal character goes into the puzzling room and reveals Mustafa's past, the personality strife gets evident: †¦out of the obscurity there developed a grimacing face with pressed together lips that I knew however couldn't put. I moved towards it with detest in my heart. It was my foe Mustafa Sa'eed. The face grew†¦ and I wound up standing eye to eye with myself. †¦a image of me glaring at my face from a mirror. (135) A few equals are drawn between the focal character and Mustafa Sa'eed. Both communicate in English and had concentrated in London. Despite the fact that the focal character had experienced childhood in the town, his instruction and time abroad had made him as much an outcast as Sa'eed. After observing his own appearance in the haziness, he trusts it to be Mustafa, who he had developed to detest. As he draws nearer to the object of his disdain, he finds that he is standing up close and personal with himself. Mustafa speaks to him all that he disdains in himself.