Open AccessPersonality Analysis in “A Question of Integrity” —We Are on the Journey to Integrity
Author(s) -
Zhouyan Li
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
theory and practice in language studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-0692
pISSN - 1799-2591
DOI - 10.17507/tpls.1003.10
Subject(s) - personality , personal integrity , guard (computer science) , structural integrity , psychology , tracing , foundation (evidence) , process (computing) , social psychology , psychoanalysis , computer science , law , political science , engineering , structural engineering , programming language , operating system
Integrity is the foundation of one’s personality. Life is just a question of integrity, and we are on the journey to integrity. Family plays a very important role in the process of personality formation, and personality defects can be healed if you can recognize and accept them, understand the roots of family influence and believe something can be done to improve it until it is integrated. In the novel of “A Question of Integrity”, by analyzing personality defects, tracing family influence, and finding out how to be integrated of the main characters --Alice, Lewis and Nicholas, this paper highlights us to realize that the best way to integrity is to be true to yourself, facing the reality courageously and fighting the difficulties. So we need to guard our integrity as a sacred thing.