Vanity Fair ve The Way of All Flesh Eserlerinin Carlyle’ın Kahraman Konsepti ve Nietzsche’nin Übermensch Konsepti Işığında İncelenmesi

Bu makalenin amacı, William Makepeace Thackeray’ın Vanity Fair’indeki seçilmiş karakterleri Thomas Carlyle’ın kahraman kavramı üzerinden analiz etmek ve Samuel Butler’in The Way of All Flesh’in kahramanı Ernest Pontifex’i Friedrich Nietzsche’nin Übermensch kavramı üzerinden analiz etmektir. İki roman analiz için seçildi çünkü başlıkları Carlyle ve Nietzsche'nin eserlerinde önemli bir endişe olan Hıristiyan dinine atıfta bulunuyor. Carlyle’ın kahramanı ille de bir Hristiyan değildir, ancak Carlyle’ın “saygı” dediği şeye muktedir olmalıdır: görünmez ve sonsuza dair bir farkındalık ve takdir. Nietzsche ünlü bir şekilde Hıristiyan dinini kınadı. Übermensch'i Hristiyan değerlerine aykırı olarak yorumlanıyor. Bu makale, Vanity Fair'de seçilen karakterlerin Carlylean kahramanları olarak kabul edilip edilemeyeceğini veya ne ölçüde değerlendirilebileceğini ve The Way of All Flesh'ın kahramanın bir Nietzscheci Übermensch olarak kabul edilip edilmeyeceğini veya ne ölçüde değerlendirilebileceğini araştırıyor. Bu makale, Vanity Fair'deki önemli karakter Rawdon Crawley'in kısmen Carlylean kahramanı olarak düşünülebileceğini savunuyor. Bu makale ayrıca, The Way of All Flesh'ın kahramanı Ernest Pontifex'in kısmen Nietzscheci Übermensch olarak düşünülebileceğini savunuyor.

A Reading of Vanity Fair and The Way of All Flesh in the Light of Carlyle’s Hero and Nietzsche’s Übermensch

The aim of this article is to analyze selected characters in William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair through Thomas Carlyle’s concept of the hero and to analyze the protagonist of Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh, Ernest Pontifex, through Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch. The two novels have been selected for analysis because their titles allude to the Christian religion, which is an important concern in the works of Carlyle and Nietzsche. Carlyle’s hero is not necessarily a Christian but he must be capable of what Carlyle termed “reverence”: an awareness and appreciation of the invisible and infinite. Nietzsche famously denounced the Christian religion. His Übermensch is construed in contradiction to Christian values. This article explores whether or to what extent selected characters in Vanity Fair can be considered as Carlylean heroes and whether or to what extent the protagonist of The Way of All Flesh can be considered as a Nietzschean Übermensch. This article argues that Rawdon Crawley, a major character in Vanity Fair, can partly be considered as a Carlylean hero. This article further argues that Ernest Pontifex, the protagonist of The Way of All Flesh, can partly be considered as a Nietzschean Übermensch.

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