David Mamet’ in Glengarry Glen Ross Adlı Eserinde Maçoluk ve Eş-Sosyallik

Year 2018, Volume: 6 Issue: 6, 979 - 983, 02.12.2018

Faruk Kalay

https://doi.org/10.18506/anemon.418433

Abstract

Amerikan
edebiyatının ve sinemasının önemli isimlerinden biri olan David Mamet bir çok
oyun ve senaryo yazmış ve bunların bir çoğunu yapımcılığını ve yönetmenliğini
kendisi üstlenmiştir. Tümü erkek karakterlerden oluşan Glengarry Glen Ross işten atılma korkusuyla ofisteki panoda
isimlerinin en alta yazılmasını istemeyen dört gayrimenkul satıcısıyla
ilgilidir. Bu korku onları manipülasyona, yalancılığa ve hatta kanunsuzluğa
yönlendirir. Oyundaki en göze çarpan şey karakterlerin birbirleriyle olan
ilişkileridir. Karakterler, ahlak ve ilke yoksunudur. Eş-sosyal ofis,
karakterlerin hayatta kalmaya çabaladığı bir maço arenaya dönüşür. Mamet,
oyunda Amerikan rüyasına referans yaptığı Darvinist bir toplumu hicveder.
Karakterlerin birbirleriyle olan ilişkisi modern çağa karşılık ilkel ve
pragmatist durur. Bu minvalde oyun erkek iç dünyasını göstermek bakımından
önemli bir rol üstlenir. Bu çalışmada David Mamet’ın önemli oyunu Glengarry Glen Ross maçoluk,
eş-sosyallik ve erkek psikolojisi açılarından irdelenecektir.

Keywords

David Mamet, Darvinizm, Glengarry Glen Ross, Eş-sosyallik, Maçoluk

Machismo and Homosociality in Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross

Abstract

One of
the distinctive persons of American literature and cinema, David Mamet has
written a great number of plays and scripts and many of which are produced or
directed by Mamet himself. Glengarry Glen
Ross consisting of all male characters deals with four real estate salesmen
who do not want to be the bottom name on the board in their office for fear of
dismissal. This fear leads them to manipulation, falsehood and even illegality.
The most conspicuous thing in the play is characters’ relationships to each
other. Characters have a lack of morality and principle. The homosocial office
turns into a macho arena where characters endeavor to survive. Mamet satirizes
a dog-eat-dog society in the play, which has also a reference to American
dream. The characters’ interaction to each other seems primitive and
manipulative despite modern age. In this sense, the play also reveals male’s
inner psychology because human’s instinctual aims such as surviving and potency
are unearthed in the play. In this study David Mamet’s distinctive play Glengarry Glen Ross will be argued with
machismo, homosociality, man’s psychology.   

Keywords

David Mamet, Darwinism, Glengarry Glen Ross, Homosociality, Machismo

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