Özgür İrade Üzerine Bir Çalışma: Joseph Conrad’ın Batılı Gözler Altında Romanında Kim Neyi Görüyor?

Abstract

Bu makalenin amacı, bir psikolojik roman olarak Batılı Gözler Altında(1911) adlı eserine odaklanarak İzlenimci (empresyonist)yazar Joseph Conrad’ın (1857-1924) sanatınıincelemektir.Romanını yazmaya iten gerekçeleri ve yazarken kullandığı üslubu anlayabilmek için Conrad’ın roman türünden ne anladığını ve romanında tekrar eden temaların neler olduğu incelenmelidir çünkü eserin tahlili için ancak bu yolla doğru bir başlangıç yapılabilir. Bu makalede altı çizilen temel noktalar ihanet olgusu ve ihanetin roman karakterleri için sebep ve sonuçları ve güdüleyen bir güç olarak baba kavramının yokluğudur. Kim neyi görüyor, görmeye karşıt olarak anlamak ve özgür iradenin imkansızlığı gibi felsefi mesele ve sorular da bu makalede tartışılmaktadır ve bu bağlamda, bu çalışma Conrad’ınedebi metinleri üzerine yazılmış olan eleştirel literatüre de katkı sağlamayı amaçlamaktadır.    

Keywords

• Joseph Conrad,Batılı Gözler Altında,Psikolojik roman,İzlenimcilik (Empresyonizm),Özgür irade

A Study on Free Will: Who Sees What in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes?

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore the art of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) as an impressionist writer by focusing on one of his novels, Under Western Eyes(1911) as a psychological novel. In order to understand Conrad’s motives and style to write this novel one should start with a sound beginning by looking at his concept of narrative fiction and recurring themes in the novel. The points that are highlighted in the paper are the concept of betrayal and its reasons and results for the characters, and the absence of a father as a driving force. Also, such philosophical issues and questions as ‘who sees what?’, seeing versus understanding and the impossibility of free will be explored in this article, which also aims to contribute to the scholarship on Conrad’s narrative fiction.

Keywords

• Joseph Conrad,Under Western Eyes,The psychological novel,Impressionism,Free will

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