TY - JOUR T1 - The Doomed Struggle of Tony Last with the Society and the Individual in Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust TT - Evelyn Waugh’un Bir Avuç Toz’unda Tony Last’ın Birey ve Toplumla Umutsuz Çarpışması AU - Bartu, Cemre Mimoza PY - 2019 DA - January Y2 - 2019 DO - 10.21547/jss.450374 JF - Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi JO - GAUN-JSS PB - Gaziantep Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1303-0094 SP - 1 EP - 12 VL - 18 IS - 1 LA - en AB - A Handful of Dust (1934), the fourth novel of Evelyn Waugh, deals withthe struggles of the protagonist Tony Last in various stages of the twentiethcentury society. Waugh in this novel illustrates a dark picture of thetwentieth century English society and its individuals with the aim of layingbare the “human selfishness and self-delusion” (Ward, 2008, p.679). In generalsense, the author directs his criticism towards the various aspects of Englishsocial life indicating the pervading decadence in the soul of the individualand modern zeitgeist. Focusing on Tony Last’s, marriage, social relationshipsand expedition to Brazil, Waugh delineates a portrait of an innocent man whovalues the past and its traditions. Yet, in order to survive in the societyTony embarks on a quest for self-identity but fails in each attempt. So as toillustrate the futile attempts of Tony, Waugh writes two different endings forthe novel both of which end in utter failures. Therefore, by the virtue ofindividual failures and socio-cultural corruption, the novel is concerned withthe struggle of Tony Last who is surrounded by those individual, cultural andsocial adversities. In this study, the modernist theme of the quest of theindividual will be analysed through Tony Last’s quest in social and personalspheres by also demonstrating the Waugh’s critique of the modern times. KW - Evelyn Waugh KW - A Handful of Dust KW - Modernist Novel KW - Quest KW - Individual vs Society N2 - Evelyn Waugh’nun 1934 yılındayazdığı Bir Avuç Toz, başkahramanTony Last’ın yirminci yüzyıl Londra’sındaki farklı sahnelerde mücadelesini konualan yazarın dördüncü romanıdır. Bu romanda Waugh yirminci yüzyıl İngiliztoplumu ve bireyinin karanlık tarafını resmederken “insanın bencilliği vekendini kandırması” fikrini açıkça ortaya koymaya çalışmıştır (Ward, 2008, p.679).Genel anlamda, yazar modern zamanın ve bireyin ruhunu etkisi altına alanyozlaşmayı ele alarak eleştirisini İngiliz toplumsal yaşamının farklı açılarınayöneltmiştir. Tony Last’ın evliliği, sosyal ilişkileri ve Brezilya’ya yaptığıseyahatine odaklanarak, Waugh geçmişe ve geleneklere değer veren masum TonyLast portresi çizmiştir. Ancak, böylesi bir toplumda yaşamında devam edebilmekamacıyla Tony kendini bulmak için girdiği mücadelelerde her seferinde mağlupolur. 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