Orwell’in Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm ve Nineteen Eighty-Four adlı Eserlerine Psiko-Analitik Bakış

Abstract

Bu makalenin amacı, George Orwell’in romanlarında küresel tehditleri psikoanalitik eleştirel bağlamda yarattığı zihinsel ve psikolojik sorunları Coming up for Air (1939), Animal Farm (1945) ve Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) adlı romanlarda değerlendirmek olacaktır. Artan küresel krizler, finansal, ekonomik, ve sosyal açıdan farklı gerilimlere sebep olmaktadır. Oluşan global gerilimlerin bozulan sosyo-ekonomik düzende insan psikolojisine ve değerlerine olumsuz yönde etki yaptığı görülmektedir. Global risklerin insanlar üzerindeki etkileri düşünüldüğünde, edebi eleştiride psikoanalizin rolü gözardı edilemez. Orwell’in eserlerinde apokaliptik değerlendirmeler yapılmasının sebebi gelişen dünya savaşlarıdır. Orwell’in belirtilen üç romanı, modern dünyada artan çekişmeler ve savaşlardan dolayı oluşan karamsar havayı ve çekişmeleri ortaya koymaktadır. Orwell eserlerinde, modern dünyada insanların yaşadğı endişe, belirsizlik, anlamsızlık, yabancılaşma, yalnızlaşma ve uzaklaşma gibi ruhsal bozuklukları sergilemektedir. Buna ek olarak, Orwell romanlarında dolaylı olarak, insanların yaşadığı psikolojik gerilimlerden dolayı sisteme karşı tutum ve davranışlar sergilediğini anlatmaktadır

Keywords

• George Orwell, Global Tehlikeler, Dünya Savaşları, Soğuk Savaş Öncesi Dönem, İnsan Psikolojisi

Psychoanalitical Outlook for Orwell’s Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four

Abstract

This article highlights a psychoanalytical approach while assessing how world wars cause mental and psychological disorders in human beings in respect to George Orwell’s Coming up for Air (1939), Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Rising global risks result in different forms of tension in financial, economic, and social respects. The atmosphere of perpetual crisis is influential on human psychology and personal values in worsening socio-economic circumstances. The role of psychoanalysis in literary criticism cannot be disregarded because of the rising global risks’ influence on human beings. The chaos of World Wars is the reason for Orwell to portray an apocalyptic analysis in his fictional works. Orwell’s aforementioned three novels in question here reveal a dark undertone of war and conflicts and manifest Orwell’s tendency to portray individuals having anxiety, uncertainty, meaninglessness, alienation, and isolation in the modern world. Moreover, Orwell indirectly depicts that such psychological tensions end up rebellious activities of human beings in his novels

Keywords

• George Orwell, Global Risks, World Wars, Pre-Cold War Period, Human Psychology

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