THE QUEST FOR CULTURAL SURVIVAL IN ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Year 2021, Volume: 14 Issue: 34, 763 - 778, 10.06.2021

Timucin Bugra Edman , Hacer Gözen , Lowra Dzekem

https://doi.org/10.12981/mahder.859656

Abstract

In Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare highlights the cultures of the East and the West. The play reveals the quest for cultural survival between the East and the West as a major factor that stirs cultural complexities. The unrighteous representation of the Eastern culture shows the complex nature of multiculturalism the canonical writers strove to represent in their writings. This study seeks to substantiate the challenges that confront cultural expressions in the multicultural atmosphere Shakespeare highlights in Antony and Cleopatra, as well as how the minority culture shapes this context of cultural plurality. Similarly, a comparative analysis of Cultural Studies, cultural history, cultural identity, cultural ‘contents,’ and the literary work Antony and Cleopatra will be the subject matter in this study. Moreover, the goal of this study is to examine how Shakespeare promotes Western culture through the adoringly and adorningly illustrated West with a blemished and contemptuous portrayal of the East in his play. Comparatively, we examine how Shakespeare evinces the triumvirs as the powerful three (Antony, Caesar and Lepidus) and, on the other hand, how he associates Cleopatra with the East.

Keywords

Sexual power, cultural identity, subjected history, interculturalism, misrepresentation

ANTONY VE CLEOPATRA’DA KÜLTÜREL YAŞAM ARAYIŞI

Abstract

Antony ve Kleopatra’da William Shakespeare Doğu ve Batı kültürlerini vurgular. Oyun, Doğu ve Batı arasındaki kültürel hayatta kalma arayışını, kültürel karmaşıklıkları harekete geçiren metinlerinde ortaya koyduğu çok kültürlülüğün karmaşık doğasını göstermektedir. Bu çalışma, Shakespeare'in Antony ve Kleopatra'da vurguladığı çok kültürlü atmosferde kültürel ifadelerde karşılaşılan zorlukları ve azınlık kültürünün bu kültürel çoğulculuk bağlamını nasıl şekillendirdiğini incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Benzer şekilde, Kültürel Çalışmalar, kültürel tarih, kültürel kimlik, kültürel 'içerikler' ile edebi eser olan Antony ve Kleopatra'nın karşılaştırmalı analizi bu çalışmanın konusu olacaktır. Dahası, bu çalışmanın amacı, Shakespeare'in oyununda Doğu'nun çirkin ve aşağılayıcı tasviriyle birlikte, hayranlık uyandırıcı ve süslü Batı tasviri aracılığıyla Batı kültürünü nasıl yücelttiğini incelemektir. Shakespeare'in, hükümdarlarının (Antonius, Caesar ve Lepidus) nasıl güçlü üçlü olarak ortaya çıktıkları ve diğer yandan Kleopatra'nın Doğu ile nasıl ilişkilendirildiği karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenecektir.

Keywords

Cinsiyet gücü, kültürel kimlik, mahkum edilmiş tarih, yanlış betimleme, kültürlerarasılık

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