Tragic Downfall of Promising Psychologist Dick Diver
Öz
The work of F. Scott Fitzgerald The Tender is Night shows us how a character like the psychologist Dick Diver having strong qualities such as education and career may collapse upon entering into a new social status which results in hamartia while it causes him to suffer from some mental illnesses such as hysteria and melancholia in his tragic fall down. In this perspective, be able to understand the tragic downfall of the protagonist Dick Diver who was once known well and respected for his psychology treatments for his mental patients then Dick Diver's getting lost in his sexual drives with his interaction with women this study aims to analyze the novel’s structure and the gaps between the parts of the novel with Freud’s theory of hysteria and melancholia.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
- Arthur Mizener, Twelve Great American Novels. (New York: New York American Library, 1967): 115.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Sanat ve Edebiyat
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Abdullah Kodal
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0000-0002-8730-1791
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Haziran 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
18 Aralık 2018
Kabul Tarihi
17 Haziran 2019
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2019 Cilt: 4 Sayı: 1