The list of characters in A. Turan Oflazoğlu?s drama plays

A.Turan Oflazoğlu is a writer who could manage to be known publicly beginning from the 1950?s. In addition to his poems, Oflazoğlu, who became known in the field by his poems, has written drama plays, literary analyses and made translations. When his works are viewed from a general perspective, his dramatic plays form the majority of his works in comparison with the other types.This study first makes a short assessment about the literary personality of the writer based on a general view above his life story including the list of his works, then concentrates on his dramatic plays. For each play, first a short summary was given and the text was examined form the viewpoint of the characters.With his wide range of cultural background, accumulated knowledge and vast tolerance, Oflazoğlu has produced drama plays that can be classified into three main topics that are ?related to life in rural area?, ?having symbolic meaning? and ?related to history?. In his historical plays, his protagonists are a number of rulers, scholars, poets and composers who are notable people in the line of history ranging form Socrates to Mustafa Kemal. In his symbolic plays, the writer has intended to demonstrate how man conflict with and contradict himself, therefore in the same plays, he situated characters representing both positive and negative / strong and weak sides of the human beings. In his plays about the life in rural area, he tried to attract the attention of the audience to the social problems such as ?blood feud?, ?money demanded by the family of the bride? and ?exploitation by feudal lords?. Although they are too limited, the topics above has determined and directed the characters that would be chosen by the author. Characters of Oflazoğlu?s plays show a variation and expansion in a range changing from an orphan and poor peasant to a ruler of world vide empire. With these characters, the author tries to reach to the universal from the national and describe the passion of the human and his struggle to exist, with its most comprehensive meaning; he tries to describe the ?human being? both with his virtue and deficiency.