Ben Jonson’un volpone, the alchemist ve the silent woman adlı oyunlarında kılık değiştirme ve rol yapmanın ahlaki boyutu.

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2015

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Çağla Tekin

Danışman: MARGARET JEANNE M. SÖNMEZ

Özet:

This thesis studies the plays Volpone, The Alchemist and The Silent Woman in order to show that through his characters who adopt multiple identities, Ben Jonson aimed to show his audience that disguise and role-playing are morally wrong. As a classicist, Jonson was influenced by Stoicism (mainly by Seneca). Stoicism was a philosophy that advocated being harmonious with nature and consistent in identity, which were seen as the ultimate paths to virtue. Therefore, Jonson, following Stoic’s analogy of life as a stage, thought that the ideal man is the person who remaines loyal to his role, in other words his identity, from beginning to end. Jonson, as a satirist who finds every act that threatens self-integrity immoral, aims to awaken his audience to social and moral realities of his time by reflecting his time on stage; and by punishing his disguisers and role-players, who take advantage of other characters, he aims at transmitting his moral message.