Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SELCUK UNIVERSITESI EDEBIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-SELCUK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF LETTERS, cilt.38, ss.95-110, 2017 (ESCI)
This study focuses on the changes in the image of the hero portrayed in the literary works, and presents these changes as a result of wars and differentiated social qualities. The main objective of this study is to focus on Spanish society in the 16th and the 20th century, the social changes that were seen in the mentioned period and the effect of theses changes on the composition of Spanish novel. It has been observed that due to similar reasons, similar consequences appeared in Spanish society in the mentioned centuries. As a result of this, novelists tended to use a realistic narrative in their literary works. The most important novels of the 16th and the 20th centuries' Spanish literature Lazarillo de Tormes, El Quijote, La colmena and La verdad sobre el caso Savolta with their protagonists turned into antiheroes portrayed a strong negative criticism of the Spanish society. While doing this, they define their protagonists as "loser" antiheroes, as fearful and antisocial ones, on the contrary to the tragic, epic and romantic hero images of the previous centuries. The 16th century's picaresque novel's unethical antihero picaro is quite different from the famous Middle Age's hero: Cid the fearless warrior. It is almost impossible to come across a fearless hero, as it was seen in the first epic castilian poem Mio Cid, assumed to be written in the 12th century and conserved from the Middle Ages until present, after the 16th century. Throughout this study the 16th and 20th centuries Spain has been defined in detail, and the parallelism in the change of the hero's definition between these mentioned centuries has been analyzed in the light of related theories and perceptual categories.