A study of Basis of Formation Mystical Identity inMarguerite Yourcenar' novels

Marguerite Yourcenar turns to self-making in all her works and regards it as the result of an evolutionary process. Marguerite Yourcenar designs the basis of this self-making by creating the characters in her novels so that the process of an independent viewpoint about identity in the effects taken from historical contents and myths. According to such viewpoint, the humans' interpretation about their essence and the relationship with their environment is reflected in the myths. From this viewpoint, explaining myth in literature and the author's historical ideas are expressed with a close relationship between the author and her artistic work as a model in self-making. This article tries to study analogically Marguerite Yourcenar's route in drawing individual identity and understanding self-making through the layout of characters in her novels. Self-making combines with the expression for individual identity. She has analyzed the human