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Bildungsroman'i yeniden yazmak: Jhumpa Lahiri'nin the Namesake ve The Lowland eserlerinin postkolonyal analizi
This study will analyze the cultural change and development of an identity in the novels of Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland and The Namesake, through exposing to an alien culture by immigration. The notion of dual identity, cultural colonialism, postcolonialism and the form of Bildungsroman will be discussed and analyzed in detail. The aim of this study is to underline that the concept of identity is not national or pre-given, and that it is an alterable and re-creatable notion through the cultural exchange and cultural differences. The cultural transformation and the development of identity of the first and second generation immigrants and the immigrant experience will be discussed in the light of Homi K. Bhabha's theories on identity, culture, cultural colonialism and the structure of Bildunsgroman which contributes to the notion of development as it depicts the life span of its protagonist.
Inept parents and confused children in Faulkner's novels
People?s personal development varies according to the family environment in which they live. The children raised by trust and love can adapt to the world easily while the ones who imprison themselves in their own private cages, judging the life cruelly. The novels of William Faulkner that I have analyzed, The Sound and The Fury, As I Lay Dying; Absalom, Absalom! tell the stories of confused children who seeks for themselves all through their lives. Key
Tragic characteristics in Shakespeare`s Hamlet and Miller`s death a salesman
This thesis is a comparative study of William Shakespeare?s Hamlet, Prince ofDenmark and Arthur Miller?s Death of a Salesman in the context of their basic tragiccharacteristics and tragic evolution of these characteristics. It is also a comprehensiveanalysis on tragedy with its different dimensions. The analysis of two significant tragicplays, which are based on in this thesis as monumental representatives of the Elizabethanand modern periods in the historical background of tragedy as a literary form, enables torecognise the way on the basis of a tragic evolution. The focus of this study is theoriginality of these two tragic plays which makes them two of the most remarkableexamples of tragedy during the time. At the same time, William Shakespeare and ArthurMiller are focused as the two immoral playwrights with their basic contributions to tragedyin this thesis. While the Elizabethan tragedy mainly concerned with supernatural elements,divinity and relationships of members from upper class, the modern tragedy mainlyconcerned with realistic aspects of the life like economic crisis, social pressure on acommon man to be successful in the business life and simple relationships of commonpeople from middle class within a familial perspective. Briefly, this characteristic isessentially inferred from the whole discussion of this thesis among others as the moststriking tragic evolution between the Elizabethan and modern tragedy.