SPECULATIONS ON PANENTHEISM IN LITERATURE, SINLESS SINNERS AND DEMONIC GOOD ANGELS IN MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN AND LORD OF THE FLIES

Abstract

This study applies an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the selected works through panentheistic philosophy to visualize the abstract expressions and perception of theology and philosophy on panentheism using concrete and representational expressions of the selected novels. In the dystopian work Lord of the Flies by William Golding, this study benefits the limitless opportunities fiction offers to unveil the problem of evil and goes beyond the boundaries of the teachings, experiences and social norms the human world. The dystopian fiction Lord of the Flies, which portrays the inner and subconscious conflict between good and evil within individuals, is scrutinized from a panentheistic perspective to question the existence of evil. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, as a genre of magic realism and historiographic metafiction, will enlighten the study to reveal the conflicts between destruction and creation to clarify the problem of evil which is ambiguous from a panenthestic view.

Keywords

• Panentheistic philosophy
• problem of evil
• god
• Midnight’s Children

EDEBİYATTA PANENTEIZM ÜZERİNE MÜLAHAZALAR, GECEYARISI ÇOCUKLARI VE SİNEKLERİN EFENDİSİ’NDE GÜNAHSIZ GÜNAHKÂRLAR VE ŞEYTANİ İYİ MELEKLER

Abstract

Bu çalışma, panenteizmdeki din ve felsefenin soyut ifadelerini ve bakış açısını görselleştirmek amacıyla, seçilen romanları somut ve kavramsal ifadelerini kullanarak, disiplinlerarası ve karşılaştırmalı bir yaklaşımla panenteistik felsefe açısından ele alır. Bu çalışma, William Golding’in distopyası Sineklerin Efendisi romanında şeytan sorunsalını açığa çıkarmak amacıyla kurgusal anlatıların sunduğu sınırsız imkânlardan faydalanır ve insan dünyasındaki öğretilerin, deneyimlerin ve sosyal normların sınırlarını aşar. Bireylerde iyi ve kötü arasındaki bilinçdışı içsel çatışmaları sergileyen distopik kurgu Sineklerin Efendisi, bu çalışmada şeytanın varlığını sorgulamak amacıyla panenteistik bakış açısıyla irdelenir. Muğlak olan şeytan sorunsalını netleştirmek için, yok etmek ve yaratmak arasındaki çatışmaları açığa çıkarmak amacıyla, büyülü gerçekçilik ve historiyografik üstkurmaca türünde bir roman olan Salman Rushdie’nin Geceyarısı Çocukları, panentestik bakış açısıyla bu çalışmaya ışık tutar.

Keywords

• Panenteistik felsefe
• Şeytan sorunsalı
• Tanrı
• Geceyarısı Çocukları
• Sineklerin Efendisi
• Rus felsefesinde Panenteizm
• Lord of the Flies
• panentheism in Russian philosophy

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