Jack Kerouac’ın On the Road Eserinde ‘Sal Paradise’ Karakterinin Tatminsizliği

Yıl 2014, Sayı: 6, 83 - 91, 01.10.2014

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Öz

Jack Kerouac, Beat hareketinin öncülerinden biridir. Beat hareketi materyalizmi ve tüketici toplumu reddedip yeni değer yargıları benimsemiştir. Bu çalışmada Jack Kerouac’ın On the Road adlı eserinde çağdaş toplumun bu tatminsizliğini ele alınmaktadır. Romanın kahramanı Sal Paradise, Jack Kerouac’ın kendisidir. Sal Paradise bir yerde ancak birkaç ay kalır ve kaldığı sure içinde sonraki hedefe gidebilmek için çalışıp birkaç dolar kazanmayı amaçlar. Evindeyken seyahat özlemi, seyahat ederken de ev özlemi çeker. Hiçbir onu mutlu etmez. Sürekli bir tatminsizlik duygusu yaşar. Bu mutsuzluk, simgesel olarak, çağdaş toplumun mutsuzluğudur.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Sal Paradise, Beat hareketi, tatminsizlik, hareket, çağdaş toplum.

Dissatisfaction of the Character ‘Sal Paradise’ in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Öz

Jack Kerouac is a pioneer member of Beat movement which rejected materialism and consuming society and asserted a new set of values. In this article Jack Kerouac’s dissatisfaction of the contemporary society in his novel titled On the Road will be examined. The focus will particularly be on the dissatisfaction of the main character, Sal Paradise, who is in fact Jack Kerouac himself. Sal Paradise can only settle down for a few months in a place, just to earn a few dollars in order to be able to travel to the next destination. When at home, he is allured by the road, but when on the road, he needs to return home. He cannot reach happiness and fulfillment in either case. This unhappiness, symbolically, is the dissatisfaction of the contemporary society

Anahtar Kelimeler

Sal Paradise, Beat movement, dissatisfaction, motion, contemporary society.

Kaynakça

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