Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2008
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: Hatice Bay
Danışman: AYTEN COŞKUNOĞLU BEAR
Özet:This thesis studies the alienated characters of Albert Camus’s The Outsider, John Wain’s Hurry On Down and Yusuf Atılgan’s Aylak Adam, respectively. It argues that each of the protagonists of these novels experiences alienation. That is, Camus’s character is an alienated man because he has the characteristics of an absurd man; Wain’s character is an estranged man due to his social discontentment and Atılgan’s C. is an outsider owing to his psychological problems. The works are analyzed with philosophical, social and psychological foundations consisting of Camus’s absurd worldview for Meursault; the social and cultural aspects of Britain in the 1950s for Charles Lumley and Sigmund Freud’s psychological theories for C. Although the reasons that make these protagonists alienated differ, they mainly share similar attitudes towards their fellowmen, social conventions and metaphysical issues in some cases. Thus, through the analyses of the protagonists, the study discloses how these outsiders occupied a major place in the existential, social and psychological spheres of life in the twentieth century and became a universal source for the writers who came from different cultural, intellectual and historical backgrounds. This thesis has been written in order to contribute to the problem of outsiderness, which has been of great significance in the twentieth century European Literature.