Abstract
PERSONAL TIME FROM MACBETH TO ÖLMEYE YATMAK: CONSTRUCTIVE TIME AGAINST DESTRUCTIVE TIME
Some partnerships between the sixteenth-century tragedy writer William Shakespeare (1564-1616), who was influenced by the humanist movement, and the writer of the modern era, Adalet Ağaoğlu (b.1929) was determined in terms of their handling of "time". In Macbeth (1606), the hero could not escape the destructive time, excluding his desire to remain in an eternal present, or linear time for a while due to his ambitions. However, the ever-advancing time brought all the facts to the light and brought the end of the hero. In Ölmeye Yatmak (1973), Aysel was unable to escape from linear / personal time,and like Macbeth, make this time in a hotel room unmoving, but at the end of the text, the hero came out of his past she faced by exculpating. Her time, unlike Macbeth, is constructive. Aysel regains his own “I” and joins eternity, Macbeth cannot escape from a crime-filled past and disappears.
Designing a possible future to consolidate his power, Macbeth commits murders in a row, thus he speeds up time. His ambition reveals the intertemporal interaction and the tension in this interaction. Similarly, Aysel navigates through times to justify her individualization effort in a possible future, revealing the difference between today and the past. Unlike Macbeth, Aysel slows down time. In the first, the temporal movement is directed from the present towards a hypothetical future, and in the second, from the past to the hero’s present. In this article, the effect of time on heroes is explained by drawing attention to the symbols and the effect of the inevitable pressure of linear time on heroes. Although the reasons are different, how the stress, which the heroes progressing to death experience, manage the time is discussed as another inference of the article.
Keywords
Ölmeye Yatmak, Macbeth, linear time, destructive time, constructive time, irreversibility, symbolic
