Abstract
In her novel “La Canción de Dorotea”, Rosa Regás deals with “passion” and “enthusiasm of desiring to live” around two female characters while the reader witnesses the emotional change and spiritual evolution of the novel's main character, Aurelia. What should be questioned is what keeps us in life. Does beauty and intelligence bring passion as a desire to live? How can this be related to breathing and existing in life? This study will deal with the concept of "passion" and "desire" as a will to live by comparing the attitudes towards life, behaviors and frames of mind of these two characters that are extremely different from each other. In addition, the tendencies and behaviors of the characters in the novel will be examined as part of the concept of free will. In fact, as the studies conducted in recent years show, the concept of free will as an illusion creates new ideas on human being and life. Subsequently, the feeling of “jealousy”, which is always considered from a negative and marginalizing perspective, will be expressed impartially as a natural feeling that reproduces from the human mind. The concepts of "passion" and "desire" and “freewill”, which are the subject of the study, will be examined within the framework of subjects related to holding on to life, discovery of individuality and sexuality.