John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea in Terms of Epistemology

John Millington Synge'in Riders to the Sea (1904) adlı oyununda ele alınan Aran adaları sakinleri, modern teknoloji ve iletişim araçlarının sunduğu nimetlerden yoksun olmaları dolayısıyla adalarda ve adaların ötesindeki büyük dünyada neler olup bittiğim öğrenebilmek için tanıklık, algı, hafıza ve sezgi gibi yollara başvurmaktadırlar. Ancak incelendiklerinde, bu sözde bilgi kaynaklarının yeterince güvenilir olmadıktan ve hem kendi içlerindeki hem de aralarındaki tutarsızlıklar sebebiyle kapsamlı bir bilgi bütünü oluşturacak şekilde birbirleriyle ilişkilendirilip birleştirilemeyecekleri ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bu nedenle, oyun karakterleri bir belirsizlik ortamında yaşamaya mahkum gibi görünmektedirler.

John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea in Terms of Epistemology

Deprivation from the benefits of modern technology and the tools of communication makes the characters in John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea (1904) turn to such ways of generating knowledge as testimony, perception, memory, and intuition in order to learn about what goes on in the Aran Islands as well as the big world beyond them. Nonetheless, when analysed, the supposed sources of knowledge they seem to depend on cannot prove to be thoroughly reliable, nor can they satisfactorily interrelate and lead to the formulation of a comprehensive epistemology synthesising all these sources because of the inconsistencies within and among themselves. Accordingly, it appears that the inhabitants of the Aran Islands in the play are doomed to live in an atmosphere of uncertainty.

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