• R.Reeni
• Dr. Sushil Mary Mathews

Gender studies and its issues had always been a debatable topic in literature since ages. Many writers of the west have highlighted gender related subjects. Following the west, Eastern Literature had also begun to write about gender problems. One of the emerging women writers from the Korean Peninsula is Han Kang, a South Korean writer, poet and a short story writer who won the Man Booker International Prize of 2016 for her second novel- The Vegetarian. The novel was originally titled “Chaesikjuuija” in Korean, and was translated into English by Deborah Smith in 2015. The novel surrounds Yeong-hye, a normal housewife who lives an extraordinary life on her terms. Yeong- hye’s transformation from a regular meat-eating, dutiful Korean wife to an existent based on plants then to a weird transcendentalist who fantasizes her transformation into a plant. This paper aims to study the mental psyche of Yeong-hye, the transformation and psychic analysis of her dreams and how she is metamorphosed into a free soul who thinks herself to be a plant.

psychic interpretation of dreams, freedom of choice, transformation.

"A WOMAN’S PSYCHE AND METAMORPHOSIS OF THE SOUL IN THE VEGETARIAN BY HAN KANG", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.687-689, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811600.pdf

"A WOMAN’S PSYCHE AND METAMORPHOSIS OF THE SOUL IN THE VEGETARIAN BY HAN KANG", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp687-689, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811600.pdf