Authorial Personality And Character Psychology In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
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https://doi.org/10.62480/tjpch.2026.vol55.pp1-4Keywords:
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World, authorial personality, character psychologyAbstract
This study examines the relationship between authorial personality and character psychology in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. The research explores how the author's personal experiences, worldview, interests, and psychological characteristics are reflected in the novel's characters and narrative structure. Particular attention is paid to the representation of Professor Challenger, Lord John Roxton, and Malone, whose personalities reveal various aspects of Doyle's own character, including his adventurous spirit, scientific curiosity, optimism, and fascination with exploration. The study employs descriptive, comparative, and psychological analysis to investigate the connections between the author's biography and the psychological construction of literary characters. It also analyzes selected passages from both the original text and its Uzbek translation by Mahmud Yahyoyev in order to examine the preservation of psychological meanings, emotional intensity, and stylistic features across languages. The findings demonstrate that Doyle's literary characters function not only as fictional figures but also as artistic reflections of the author's personality, experiences, and ideological perspectives. The research further reveals that psychological parallelism, portrait descriptions, and symbolic imagery play an important role in the characterization process. The Uzbek translation successfully reconstructs these psychological and stylistic elements through various translation strategies, allowing target readers to experience the emotional and psychological depth of the original work. The study concludes that The Lost World serves as a valuable example of the interaction between authorial consciousness, character formation, and literary representation
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