OIDIPOUS TYRANNOS’TA KEHANET VE MERHAMET

Year 2022, Issue: 53, 53 - 60, 28.10.2022

Esengül Akıncı Öztürk

https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.1123299

Abstract

Bu makalede, acıma duygusunun Sophokles’in Oidipous Tyrannos tragedyasındaki yeri ve önemi üzerinde durulmaktadır. Acıma hissi ya da merhamet aslında seyirciden beklenen temel duygusal reaksiyon olmakla birlikte, Oidipous Tyrannos’un olay örgüsünün merkezinde yer alıp tragedyadaki olayların gidişatını belirleyen en önemli unsurdur. Sophokles, Oidipous Tyrannos’ta Oidipous mythosu üzerinde önemli birtakım değişiklikler yapmış, tragedyanın olay örgüsünü özgün bir şekilde yeniden kurgulamıştır. Buradaki temel iddiamız şudur: Sophokles’in mythosta yaptığı kritik değişikliklerin temelinde oyunda geçen ana karakterlerin acıma duygusu bulunmaktadır. Çünkü Laios’un kölesinin bebek Oidipous’u dağda bırakmayıp, onu büyütmesi için Korinthoslu haberciye vermesinde salt acıma duygusu belirleyici olduğu gibi, Oidipous’u hem Thebai kentindeki büyük veba salgınının nedenini araştırmaya sevk eden hem de yönetimi Kreon’a bıraktıran önemli kararların arkasında da kahramanın yaşadığı yoğun korku ve acıma duygusu bulunmaktadır.

Keywords

Sophokles, Oidipous Tyrannos, Kral Oidipous, Acıma, Merhamet, Thebailı Çoban

PROPHECY AND OCASSION IN OEDIPUS TYRANNUS

Abstract

This article focuses on the place and importance of pity in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus. Although the feeling of pity or compassion is just the basic emotional reaction expected from the audience, it is the most important element that takes place in the center of the plot of Oedipus Tyrannus and determines the course of events in the tragedy. Sophocles made some important changes about the Oedipus myth in the tragedy of Oedipus Tyrannus and reconstructed the plot of the tragedy in an original way. Our main claim here is this: The main character's pity is the basis of the critical changes Sophocles made in the myth. For just as the feeling of pity was decisive when Laios’ slave did not leave the baby Oedipus on the mountain, but gave it to the Corinthian messenger to raise him, there is also the intense fear and pity behind Oedipus’ important decisions that led him to investigate the cause of the great plague epidemic in the city of Thebes and left the administration to Creon.

Keywords

Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus the King, pity, Compassion, Theban Herdsman

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