Research Article

The effects of disappointment, melancholy and pain of love on the characters in Mehmet Rauf's novels

Number: 24 September 21, 2021
  • Filiz Ferhatoğlu
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The effects of disappointment, melancholy and pain of love on the characters in Mehmet Rauf's novels

Abstract

In the works of the writers of the Servet-i Fünûn Era, besides the nature of sensitivity, emotionality, introversion, pessimism, and melancholy are most used factors concerned the plot and character due to the political and social conditions of the period, their sensitive disposition, and the influences of major trends and the works of Western writers they follow and take as an example. In the thirteen of Mehmet Rauf’s sixteen novels the idea of falling in love, indicators of experiences of love-bond and its psychological qualities aftermath are handled as fundamental problematics. Mehmet Rauf’s expression of distinctive features of melancholy which are similar to the works of Servet-i Fünûn Literature are evident when the male characters well scrutinized. In Mehmet Rauf's novels, it can be observed that the tenderness brought by love and the pain of love, and these manifestations mostly conveyed by the male characters struggling with delirium, pessimism, and melancholy. The woman in love is the element that psychologically wears out the male character and puts him into fever, and it is considered to be responsible for all his mood. On the other hand, female characters portrayed as the consummate sad women and this female affliction appears in the embodiment of sickness when they encounter a physical contact by the male character unexpectedly. In this study, the psychological and physical effects of disappointment, melancholy and pain of love of male and female characters are evaluated in Mehmet Rauf's novels Garâm-ı Şebâb, Ferdâ-yı Garâm, September, The History of A Love, Heart of a Young Girl, Carnation and Jasmine, and The Last Star.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistics

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Filiz Ferhatoğlu This is me
0000-0001-6111-9548
Türkiye

Publication Date

September 21, 2021

Submission Date

July 8, 2021

Acceptance Date

September 20, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Number: 24

APA
Ferhatoğlu, F. (2021). The effects of disappointment, melancholy and pain of love on the characters in Mehmet Rauf’s novels. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 24, 619-630. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.995372