Abstract

Cohesion is one of the most important characteristics of good translation. Having a good translation is not achieved unless this factor is carefully observed. We may find students who have good mastery of spelling, grammatical rules and the skill of speaking but have noticeable weaknesses of using cohesive devices when they translate literary prose texts from Arabic into English. This study tries to examine the use of cohesive devices by University students when they translate literary prose text from Arabic into English. Texts used as a tool or instrument of data collection were given to some students to translate. The participants, in their translations, depended on certain devices ignoring the others. The subjects disregarded completely some categories of cohesive devices, such as the class of possessive pronouns, comparative reference, ellipsis, and substitution. Students sometimes misused the items, such as what happened with ‘the’. Many students were unable to vary the language (expressions) they used to express their ideas. Students sometimes succeeded in achieving cohesiveness but sometimes failed. A number of students did not end the sentences they wrote and started new ones.

This research focuses on the use of the archetypal literary criticism approach in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies through the lens of Carl Jung’s psychoanalytic theories, specifically his notion of archetypes. Archetypal critics make the assumption that human beings all over the world have basic experiences in common and have developed similar stories and symbols to express these experiences. They argue that archetypes determine the form and function of a literary work, that a text's meaning is shaped by cultural and psychological myth. This study aims to study the archetypal patterns in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, hoping to understand its symbolism by analyzing the causes and impulses of the characters’ external / internal / social behavior and thus to clarify the individual text by connecting it to more universal patterns that often go beyond literature itself. These archetypal features not only constitute the intelligibility of the text but also tap into a level of desires and anxieties of humankind.

Most students do not know how to compose a good piece of writing