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Papers by Ardeniz Özenç

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, Dec 15, 2022

Akdeniz Kadın Çalışmaları ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Dergisi, 2021

Social changes take place when a culture is confronted with the influence of another culture whic... more Social changes take place when a culture is confronted with the influence of another culture which is more dominant or 'higher' with predetermined sets of values. In Kate Chopin's work, The Awakening, the Creole culture is changing due to the influence of the North (of America) and similarly in Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil's novel, Aşk-ı Memnu, Turkish culture is affected by the West (Europe). The results of these influences are observed best through women characters and conceptions about womanhood because in the 19th century women started contributing more and more to the socioeconomic lives in their societies both in America and the Ottoman Empire. Two heroines of these novels, Edna and Bihter, do not conform to the norms of their society, they disobey the rules that have been arranged for them and eventually give up on their own lives. Both heroines represent the new type of woman or the 'New Woman', who seeks to set the rules of her own life and enjoys the same social freedom as men do. However, these women cannot manage the overwhelming social changes and eventually falter. The representations of the "New Woman" in both novels show that women who have sought their independence cannot go beyond the limitations set for them by society and they fail in asserting their individuality because of that very reason. The American and Ottoman societies in the 19th century are not ready yet and these women cannot go outside the norms. These novels of the same period with two very different settings put forward the same dilemma about the "New Woman'' and how she tried but failed in the face of the conflicts arising from her choices. The aim of this article is to analyse how social, economic and political changes affect the conceptions about women and femininity, and how women characters struggle against the challenges they confront in contending for their freedom as the liberated "New Woman''.

Journal of Turkish Studies, 2018

The quest for immortality, which has been featured even in the oldest of myths, is as old as the ... more The quest for immortality, which has been featured even in the
oldest of myths, is as old as the history of humanity. It has its roots in
the occult tradition, which stems from an idea (Gnosticism) that puts
humans at the centre of all creation. According Gnosticism, the God who
created the physical world is himself flawed, and that is the reason of all
the imperfection that surrounds us. In order to reach to the true God of
all creation, who has our essence, humans have to break all the
boundaries that were put up by the false Creator God, and reach beyond
the limits that bounds them. Transhumanism, deriving from such occult
ideas, tries to come as close to the true God as possible, by aiming to
merge every being in the world within one singular consciousness. In
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the academic anxiety of an
accomplished scholar turns into a quest for immortality, as Faustus
strives to achieve those very ends which have been sought after for ages.
In the end, Faustus loses his eternal soul and fails miserably, however,
his true intention marks his struggle as an extraordinary quest for
knowledge and eternity. The aim of this paper is to prove that Faustus
strives to achieve a much bigger ideal by selling his soul to the Devil,
which is the attainment of immortality, and therefore he can be
considered one of the earlier exponents of transhumanism. For that
purpose, various motifs and symbols that are featured throughout the
play will be closely examined, as many of them have close affinities with
the dominant occult ideologies of the play’s period, Renaissance.

ÖZET
Ölümsüzlüğü arayış en eski mitlerde bile görülebilecek, insanlık
tarihi kadar eski bir olgudur. Köklerini, insanı tüm yaratılışın merkezine
koyan doğaüstü bir akım olan Gnostisizm'den alır. Gnostisizm'e göre,
çevremizdeki tüm kusurların sebebi, yaşadığımız dünyayı yaratan
Tanrı'nın kendisinin özünde kusurlu olmasıdır. Özümüze sahip olan
gerçek Tanrı'ya ulaşabilmek için insanların, sahte Yaratıcı Tanrı
tarafından konulan tüm sınırları yıkmaları ve kendilerini bağlayan
limitlerin ötesine çıkmaları gerekir. Bu tür doğaüstü düşüncelerden yola
çıkan Transhümanizm, dünya üzerindeki her varlığı tek bir singüler
bilincin içine katarak, gerçek Tanrı'ya mümkün olduğunca
yaklaşabilmek için çabalıyor. 16. yüzyılda yaşamış olan ünlü İngiliz oyun
yazarı Christopher Marlowe'un Doktor Faustus adlı eserinde, başarılı bir
bilim insanının akademik endişeleri, insanların yüzyıllardır ulaşmaya
çalıştığı ölümsüzlüğün bir arayışı haline geliyor. Faustus en sonunda
ebedi ruhunu kaybedip sefil bir halde başarısız oluyor, ancak gerçek
niyeti sayesinde bu mücadelesi, bilgi ve sonsuzluk için yapılan sıra dışı
bir arayışa çevriliyor. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Faustus’un ruhunu şeytana
satarak aslında görünenden çok daha büyük bir ideale, yani ölümsüzlüğe
ulaşmaya çalıştığını ispatlamaktır. Her ne kadar Faustus bu savaşında
başarısız olsa da geçirdiği süreç önemlidir. Bu sebeple, Faustus
Transhümanizm’in edebiyattaki ilk örneklerinden biri sayılabilir. Bu
çalışma boyunca, söz konusu oyundaki pek çok motif ve sembol
incelenecek ve oyunun yazıldığı dönem olan Rönesans’a damgasını vuran
doğaüstü ideolojilerin izleri araştırılacaktır.

John Donne, English poet and priest of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, is generally consi... more John Donne, English poet and priest of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, is generally considered to be the most influential figure of a particular school of poetry which was identified and named by other critics as “metaphysical poetry”, long after Donne’s death (“Introduction”). Metaphysical poetry is characterised by its wit through the special use of extended metaphors, which are called “metaphysical conceits” (Gardner 42). Donne, a devout Christian, generally mixed his love for a particular person and his love for God in his poems, sometimes by using religious concepts in the description of his love for a woman, sometimes by describing his ultimate devotion to God in the fashion of love between a man and a woman, and sometimes by using the church-woman metaphor ("The Early Seventeenth Century”). The aim of this paper is to analyse the use of metaphysical conceits of amorous love and divine love, which are mixed together, in some of Donne’s poems: “Satyre III”, “Holy Sonnet XVIII”, “Elegy VI”, “Holy Sonnet XIV”, “the Canonisation”, and “the Relique”.

George Orwell, the penname of Eric Arthur Blair, is one of the most prominent English writers of ... more George Orwell, the penname of Eric Arthur Blair, is one of the most prominent English writers of 20th century (Ash). He is best known for his fable Animal Farm, and his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (Rossi and Rodden 8-10). Orwell is generally considered to be a “political writer” (Rossi and Rodden 1). However his political views conformed to neither communism nor capitalism, which were the major political ideologies that governed the world politics in the first half of the 20th century. He has a unique understanding of socialism that contradicts the Stalinist Communism of his age and capitalist ideology in general. His idea of socialism is based on a classless, egalitarian society in which the state has the responsibility to provide its citizens with equal rights and equal opportunities, so that every individual is capable of thinking for themselves. Especially, for the purpose of drawing attention to the conditions of the poor and oppressed, Orwell got down among the poorest people and produced a body of work dealing with poverty and social injustice, as well as other works dealing with the violation of basic human rights by totalitarian oppression. The aim of this paper is to analyse the development of Orwell’s understanding of socialism through analysing some of his works: The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, Dec 15, 2022

Akdeniz Kadın Çalışmaları ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Dergisi, 2021

Social changes take place when a culture is confronted with the influence of another culture whic... more Social changes take place when a culture is confronted with the influence of another culture which is more dominant or 'higher' with predetermined sets of values. In Kate Chopin's work, The Awakening, the Creole culture is changing due to the influence of the North (of America) and similarly in Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil's novel, Aşk-ı Memnu, Turkish culture is affected by the West (Europe). The results of these influences are observed best through women characters and conceptions about womanhood because in the 19th century women started contributing more and more to the socioeconomic lives in their societies both in America and the Ottoman Empire. Two heroines of these novels, Edna and Bihter, do not conform to the norms of their society, they disobey the rules that have been arranged for them and eventually give up on their own lives. Both heroines represent the new type of woman or the 'New Woman', who seeks to set the rules of her own life and enjoys the same social freedom as men do. However, these women cannot manage the overwhelming social changes and eventually falter. The representations of the "New Woman" in both novels show that women who have sought their independence cannot go beyond the limitations set for them by society and they fail in asserting their individuality because of that very reason. The American and Ottoman societies in the 19th century are not ready yet and these women cannot go outside the norms. These novels of the same period with two very different settings put forward the same dilemma about the "New Woman'' and how she tried but failed in the face of the conflicts arising from her choices. The aim of this article is to analyse how social, economic and political changes affect the conceptions about women and femininity, and how women characters struggle against the challenges they confront in contending for their freedom as the liberated "New Woman''.

Journal of Turkish Studies, 2018

The quest for immortality, which has been featured even in the oldest of myths, is as old as the ... more The quest for immortality, which has been featured even in the
oldest of myths, is as old as the history of humanity. It has its roots in
the occult tradition, which stems from an idea (Gnosticism) that puts
humans at the centre of all creation. According Gnosticism, the God who
created the physical world is himself flawed, and that is the reason of all
the imperfection that surrounds us. In order to reach to the true God of
all creation, who has our essence, humans have to break all the
boundaries that were put up by the false Creator God, and reach beyond
the limits that bounds them. Transhumanism, deriving from such occult
ideas, tries to come as close to the true God as possible, by aiming to
merge every being in the world within one singular consciousness. In
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the academic anxiety of an
accomplished scholar turns into a quest for immortality, as Faustus
strives to achieve those very ends which have been sought after for ages.
In the end, Faustus loses his eternal soul and fails miserably, however,
his true intention marks his struggle as an extraordinary quest for
knowledge and eternity. The aim of this paper is to prove that Faustus
strives to achieve a much bigger ideal by selling his soul to the Devil,
which is the attainment of immortality, and therefore he can be
considered one of the earlier exponents of transhumanism. For that
purpose, various motifs and symbols that are featured throughout the
play will be closely examined, as many of them have close affinities with
the dominant occult ideologies of the play’s period, Renaissance.

ÖZET
Ölümsüzlüğü arayış en eski mitlerde bile görülebilecek, insanlık
tarihi kadar eski bir olgudur. Köklerini, insanı tüm yaratılışın merkezine
koyan doğaüstü bir akım olan Gnostisizm'den alır. Gnostisizm'e göre,
çevremizdeki tüm kusurların sebebi, yaşadığımız dünyayı yaratan
Tanrı'nın kendisinin özünde kusurlu olmasıdır. Özümüze sahip olan
gerçek Tanrı'ya ulaşabilmek için insanların, sahte Yaratıcı Tanrı
tarafından konulan tüm sınırları yıkmaları ve kendilerini bağlayan
limitlerin ötesine çıkmaları gerekir. Bu tür doğaüstü düşüncelerden yola
çıkan Transhümanizm, dünya üzerindeki her varlığı tek bir singüler
bilincin içine katarak, gerçek Tanrı'ya mümkün olduğunca
yaklaşabilmek için çabalıyor. 16. yüzyılda yaşamış olan ünlü İngiliz oyun
yazarı Christopher Marlowe'un Doktor Faustus adlı eserinde, başarılı bir
bilim insanının akademik endişeleri, insanların yüzyıllardır ulaşmaya
çalıştığı ölümsüzlüğün bir arayışı haline geliyor. Faustus en sonunda
ebedi ruhunu kaybedip sefil bir halde başarısız oluyor, ancak gerçek
niyeti sayesinde bu mücadelesi, bilgi ve sonsuzluk için yapılan sıra dışı
bir arayışa çevriliyor. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Faustus’un ruhunu şeytana
satarak aslında görünenden çok daha büyük bir ideale, yani ölümsüzlüğe
ulaşmaya çalıştığını ispatlamaktır. Her ne kadar Faustus bu savaşında
başarısız olsa da geçirdiği süreç önemlidir. Bu sebeple, Faustus
Transhümanizm’in edebiyattaki ilk örneklerinden biri sayılabilir. Bu
çalışma boyunca, söz konusu oyundaki pek çok motif ve sembol
incelenecek ve oyunun yazıldığı dönem olan Rönesans’a damgasını vuran
doğaüstü ideolojilerin izleri araştırılacaktır.

John Donne, English poet and priest of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, is generally consi... more John Donne, English poet and priest of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, is generally considered to be the most influential figure of a particular school of poetry which was identified and named by other critics as “metaphysical poetry”, long after Donne’s death (“Introduction”). Metaphysical poetry is characterised by its wit through the special use of extended metaphors, which are called “metaphysical conceits” (Gardner 42). Donne, a devout Christian, generally mixed his love for a particular person and his love for God in his poems, sometimes by using religious concepts in the description of his love for a woman, sometimes by describing his ultimate devotion to God in the fashion of love between a man and a woman, and sometimes by using the church-woman metaphor ("The Early Seventeenth Century”). The aim of this paper is to analyse the use of metaphysical conceits of amorous love and divine love, which are mixed together, in some of Donne’s poems: “Satyre III”, “Holy Sonnet XVIII”, “Elegy VI”, “Holy Sonnet XIV”, “the Canonisation”, and “the Relique”.

George Orwell, the penname of Eric Arthur Blair, is one of the most prominent English writers of ... more George Orwell, the penname of Eric Arthur Blair, is one of the most prominent English writers of 20th century (Ash). He is best known for his fable Animal Farm, and his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (Rossi and Rodden 8-10). Orwell is generally considered to be a “political writer” (Rossi and Rodden 1). However his political views conformed to neither communism nor capitalism, which were the major political ideologies that governed the world politics in the first half of the 20th century. He has a unique understanding of socialism that contradicts the Stalinist Communism of his age and capitalist ideology in general. His idea of socialism is based on a classless, egalitarian society in which the state has the responsibility to provide its citizens with equal rights and equal opportunities, so that every individual is capable of thinking for themselves. Especially, for the purpose of drawing attention to the conditions of the poor and oppressed, Orwell got down among the poorest people and produced a body of work dealing with poverty and social injustice, as well as other works dealing with the violation of basic human rights by totalitarian oppression. The aim of this paper is to analyse the development of Orwell’s understanding of socialism through analysing some of his works: The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.