MY RED HAIR IS MY FREEDOM: IMAGE OF LILITH IN ORHAN PAMUK’S NOVEL, THE RED HAIRED WOMAN

Year 2019, Issue: 45, 119 - 134, 01.06.2019

Şahika Karaca

Abstract

In this study, Gülcihan, as a woman
character in Orhan Pamuk’s The Red Haired
Woman referring to the image of Lilith, known as first wife of Adam in
Western Mythology. In feminist literature Lilith is one of the representatives
of femme fatale/fatal woman/diabolic woman with her libertarian spirit. One of
the most significant characteristics of Lilith is being
equalitarian/libertarian woman, and defining her
existence referring to her own body and senses and regarding her identity of
being a good mother and good spouse as secondary,
the other is her leading to catastrophe through her red hair’s
fascinating and voluptuous effect. Similarly, Gülcihan in Orhan Pamuk’s The Red Haired Woman, forms her
libertarian woman identity through her red hair and being
a good mother and good wife is secondary. By means of her
equalitarian/libertarian such identity has a fatal effect leading to
catastrophe in the novel. In this study, character analysis of Gülcihan in The Red Haired Woman has been targeted
referring to the analogy of the image of Lilith.

Keywords

Lilith, Orhan Pamuk, The Red Haired Woman, Sexual Identity

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