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DICKENS’IN DAVID COPPERFIELD ESERİNDEKİ EVLİLİK İKİLEMİ

THE DILEMMA OF MARRIAGE IN DICKENS’ DAVID COPPERFIELD

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http://dx.doi.org/10.9761/JASSS2459

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Abstract (2. Language): 
Marriage and divorce are two principal subjects and events which pervade into David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens. The panic of divorce that haunted the minds of Victorian people and penetrates into the novel is the key element underlying incompatible and miserable marriages, in which spouses are condemned to complex lives going between loyalty, sacrifice, submission and helplessness and most of the time death is a way of escape or relief from an oppressive marriage for spouses in the novel. This paper aims to expose the main reasons behind failed marriages in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens by questioning the seeming impossibility of divorce which was both celebrated and condemned in the nineteenth century. Associated with separation, disappointment and regret, the marriages in David Copperfield have a negative, pessimistic tone rather than a positive and hopeful one. It is a novel which sacrifices failed marriages for the sake of isolation, divorce and second marriages. Therefore this paper will discuss whether David Copperfield celebrates or reacts against divorce by considering the anxieties of Betsey Trotwood, Dora and Emma Micawber, as wives who wants to leave their husbands, and try to demonstrate how the novel is obssessed with desertion, separation and dissolution of a marriage, rather than its maintenance.
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Evlilik ve boşanma, Charles Dickens’ın David Copperfield eserine nüfuz eden iki ana konu ve olaydır. Viktorya dönemi insanlarının zihninden çıkmayan ve romana derinlemesine işleyen boşanma konusundaki panic, eşlerin, sadakat, fedakârlık, boyun eğme ve çaresizlik arasında gidip gelen karmaşık hayatlara mahkûm edildiği uyumsuz ve mutsuz evliliklerin altında yatan temel unsurdur ve çoğu zaman ölüm, romandaki eşler için, boğucu evliliklerden bir kaçış ya da rahatlama yoludur. Bu yazı, on dokuzuncu yüzyılda hem kutlanan hem kınanan boşanmanın sözde imkânsızlığını sorgulayarak, Charles Dickens’in David Copperfield eserindeki başarısız evliliklerin arkasındaki ana nedenleri ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Ayrılık, hayalkırıklığı ve pişmanlıkla ilişkilendirilen, David Copperfield’teki evlilikler pozitif ve umut verici olmaktan ziyade negative ve karamsar bir tona sahiptir. Bu, ayrılık, boşanma ve ikinci evlilikler uğruna, başarısız evlilikleri feda eden bir romandır. Bundan dolayı bu yazı, eşlerinden ayrılmak isteyen kadınlar olarak, Betsey Trotwood, Dora ve Emma Micawber’in endişelerini göz önünde bulundurarak, David Copperfield romanının boşanmayı kutlayıp kutlamadığını ya da boşanmaya karşı çıkıp çıkmadığını tartışacak ve romanın nasıl terkedilme, ayrılık ve evliliğin devamından ziyade bozulması gibi konularla yoğunlaştığını göstermeye çalışacak.
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