AN OVERVIEW OF DOSTOYEVSKİ AND DEMİRKUBUZ'S UNDERGROUND MAN FROM THE MORAL FRAMEWORK
DOSTOYEVSKİ VE DEMİRKUBUZ’UN YERALTI ADAMINA AHLAK ÇERÇEVESİNDEN BİR BAKIŞ

Author : Sabire SOYTOK
Number of pages : 209-224

Abstract

Dostoyevsky is undoubtedly the most important name in world literature.He has influenced very important writers both in his country and abroad with his novels. Especially the “Underground Man” has become the symbol of modernism, the pioneer of individuals who have difficulty in adapting to changing social order. “Notes from the Underground” (1864), Dostoyevsky, in his book, he defined the people and cities as capitalists and under the concept of underground as a metaphor, he criticized the new order through the Underground Man, who could not keep pace with the new order. Basic resentment at Dostoyevsky; the concept of hypocrisy and false morality adopted in accordance with the rules of social life. Like Dostoyevsky, Demirkubuz, who is disturbed by the hypocrisy and false morality in the society, has also made films that open the way to discuss the concept of morality. He shoot the movie “Underground” (2012) for a free adaptation of Dostoyevsky's “Notes from the Underground” (1864), almost 150 years later he has tried to analyze the situation of modernist societies and the individual Even though societies, histories and cultures are different, the problems of existence of modernized people are similar and based on this similarity, Demirkubuz, in his film “Underground” he discusses the concept beyond good and bad by handling individual and social hypocrisy in the moral framework through the underground man he borrowed from Dostoyevsky. In this article, Dostoyevsky's Underground man and Demirkubuz’s Underground man named Muharrem will be studied through the concept of morality.

Keywords

Dostoyevski, Demirkubuz, Moral, hypocrisy, confrontation

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