"CESARET MADALYASI" VE "SİLAHLARA VEDA" ADLI ROMANLARDA SAVAŞ KAVRAMI

Yıl 2022, Cilt: 4 Sayı: 2, 177 - 190, 30.12.2022

Halit Alkan

https://doi.org/10.55036/ufced.1193592

Öz

Amerikan İç Savaşı ve kanlı Birinci Dünya Savaşı on milyon insanın ölümüyle, yirmi milyon insanın engelli kalmasıyla ve de özgürlük, demokrasi ve eşitlik gibi değerlerin yok edilmesiyle sonuçlanmıştır. İki savaş, sanat ve fikir dünyasında önemli değişikliklere neden olmuş, kendi edebiyatını oluşturmuş ve bunun sonucunda birçok yazar savaş edebiyatı üretmiştir. Savaş hakkında romanlar yazan modernist yazarlar arasında Stephen Crane ve Ernest Hemingway vardır. Savaşlar, savaş romanı türünde vatanseverlik, milliyetçilik ve kahramanlık kavramlarının hâkim olmasını sağlamıştır. Stephen Crane’in "Cesaret Madalyası" (1895) ve Ernest Hemingway’in "Silahlara Veda" (1929) adlı romanları insan doğası, gerçekçilik ve romantizm açısından incelenmiştir. Crane, genç bir asker Henry Fleming’in psikolojik gelişimini ve savaşın sert atmosferini anlatmıştır. Romanda idealizm-içgüdü, romantizm-gerçekçilik, korkaklık-cesaret gibi tez-antitezler gösterilmiştir. Hemingway, savaştaki şiddetten habersiz olan ve İtalyan ordusunun ambulans birliklerinde gönüllü olarak Teğmen rütbesiyle görev yapan Frederic Henry’nin psikolojik karmaşıklığının haritasını çıkarmıştır. Hemingway, savaşın gerçek aşkı korumayı reddeden bir dünyanın karanlık yüzü olduğunu öne sürmüştür. Crane ve Hemingway, insan doğası, romantizm ve gerçekçilik konularına değinirler. Karakterler, cesaret ve kahramanlık gibi soyut değerler nedeniyle savaşa gönüllü olarak katılmış olsalar da savaşın acı gerçekliğini yaşadıklarında buna katlanamazlar. Bu çalışma, savaşın acımasız ve sert atmosferinin insanoğlu üzerindeki etkilerini göstermiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Savaş, Modernizm, Gerçekçilik, Romantizm, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway

THE CONCEPT OF WAR IN "THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE" AND "A FAREWELL TO ARMS"

Öz

The American Civil War and bloody First World War resulted in the deaths of ten million people, twenty millions disabled people, and destruction of the values such as freedom, democracy and equality. The two wars caused important changes in the world of arts and ideas, created their own literature, and as a result, many writers produced war literature. Among the modernist authors who wrote novels about war are Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway, who are the subjects of this study. Wars enabled the concepts of patriotism, nationalism, and heroism to prevail in the war novel genre. Stephen Crane’s "The Red Badge of Courage" (1895) and Ernest Hemingway’s "A Farewell to Arms" (1929) are studied in terms of human nature, realism, and romanticism. Crane describes a young soldier Henry Fleming’s psychological development, and the harsh atmosphere of war. In the novel, thesis-antithesis is shown such as idealism-instinction, romanticism-realism, and cowardice-courage. Hemingway maps the psychological complexity of Frederic Henry who does not know the violence in wars and serves voluntarily in the ambulance corps of the Italian army. Hemingway suggests that war is the dark side of a world that refuses to preserve true love. Crane and Hemingway deal with human nature, romanticism, and realism. Although the characters are volunteers for war due to abstract values of courage and heroism, they cannot bear the harsh reality of war when they experience it. This study demonstrates the effects of the brutal and harsh atmosphere of war on human beings.

Anahtar Kelimeler

War, Modernism, Realism, Romanticism, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway

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