ARTS: Artuklu Sanat ve Beşeri Bilimler Dergisi

Yazarlar: İbrahim GÜNGÖR

Konular:Sanat

DOI:10.46372/arts.857199

Anahtar Kelimeler:Theatre,Mimetic desire,Rene girard,Nâzim hikmet,Ferhad and sirin

Özet: This study aims to analyse the play Ferhad and Sirin by Nâzım Hikmet within the framework of the concept ‘mimetic desire’ put forward by Rene Girard as a terminus a quo to a comprehensive theory. Girard synthesises the academic work he begins in literary criticism with the origins of culture and religion. In the process he uses myths, religious texts, novels and plays not only as material to be analysed and deciphered but also as evidence. The play Ferhad and Sirin which originates from a folk story yields an environment of conflict in which a dense case of ‘mimetic desire’ is seen in the cobweb of relationships sprawling from rivalry to violence. When the “infernal mechanism of mimetic desire” is analysed underlying what seems at first a romantic structure, the play can be seen to carry at various points what Girard defines as ‘romanesque truth’. However, towards the end of the play some parallel thoughts begin to emerge. These points are where Nâzım Hikmet’s social realist point of view penetrating the text meet Girardian thought.

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