Timalsena, Raju2022-01-042022-01-042007https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/7038This present reseach focuses on the protagonists's ceaseless effort to find her identity. During the course of the novel, Kate Brown undergoes a series of changes, in other words, in her encounters with the men different identities are manifested. She is always in search of a stable identity in the patriarchal society throughout the novel. But it is proved that patriarchy prevails everywhere. However, she persists in her effort to obtain her identity.en-USEnglish literatureFemale identityWoman's Quest for Identity in Doris Lessing's The Summer Before the DarkThesis