THE 'GOTHIC' IN HAMLET: THE ROLE OF THE MACABRE IN CREATING CATHARTIC HORROR1

Dönemin tiyatro gelenekleri ve dini tartışmaları üzerine inşa ederek, Hamlet dilsel vedramatik araçlar kullanmakta ve böylece seyircisini korkutmaktadır. Görsel-işitselaraçlar, oyuncuların giriş ve çıkış biçimleriyle birlikte seyirciyi korkutmak içinkullanılmaktadır. Bunlar, oyundaki ürkütücü unsurlara yönelik inanç ve güvensizlikarasında bir dalgalanma yaratmakta; bu da izleyici korkusunu daha da arttırmaktadır.Böylece, bu unsurlar aracılığıyla, katartik korku yaratılarak seyirciyi korkutan gotikkatarsis elde edilmektedir. Oynandığı Rönesans amftiyatrolarının duygulara hitap edenortamı sayesinde katarsisin bu türü gerçekleşmektedir. Bundan dolayı, bu araştırmanınamacı Elizabeth dönemi tiyatro ortamının Hamlet'teki ürkütücü öğelere yönelik seyircitepkisini nasıl etkilediğni ve gotik katarsisi tetiklediğini örneklemektir.

HAMLET'TE 'GOTİK': ÜRKÜTÜCÜLÜĞÜN KATARTİK KORKUNUN OLUŞMASINDAKİ İŞLEVİ

Built on Elizabethan dramatic conventions and religious debates about ghosts, Hamletemploys linguistic and dramatic means to chill its audience. Audio-visual means, alongwith the manner of entrances and exits, are used in order to horrify the audience. Thesecreate a fuctuation between belief and disbelief towards the macabre elements in theplay, which in turn heightens the fear in the audience. Thus, through these elements,gothic catharsis is achieved, which creates cathartic horror that generates fear in theaudience. The overall sensory experience in the Early Modern amphitheatre in which theplay was enacted had a great effect on the creation of this form of catharsis. Therefore, thisarticle aims to illustrate how the Elizabethan playhouse experience affected audiencereaction towards macabre elements and triggered gothic catharsis in Hamlet.

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