Inner Slavery of Men: A Psychoanalytic Reading of The Tempest and The Blind Owl
This paper, by conducting a comparative psychoanalytic study, pursues to emphasize that slavery has a deeper meaning than the meaning it has in post-colonialism by analyzing the characters of The Tempest, the last play written by William Shakespeare and The Blind Owl, the last novella written by...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Lasting Impressions Press
2019-07-01
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| Series: | International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.eltsjournal.org/archive/value7%20issue2/6-7-2-19.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper, by conducting a comparative psychoanalytic study, pursues to emphasize that slavery
has a deeper meaning than the meaning it has in post-colonialism by analyzing the characters of The
Tempest, the last play written by William Shakespeare and The Blind Owl, the last novella written by
the Iranian writer Sadegh Hedayat. It begins with an argument that how each character in the selected
works, specially the protagonist, serves as a slave at different levels of life. Hence, the focus is to show
how these characters are slaves to their own inner thoughts and beliefs. Revenge, as an inner force, is
the driving motive in the two depicted protagonists' actions. However, they adopt different attitudes by
the end of each story: Prospero, the protagonist of The Tempest, decides to forgive, but the narrator of
The Blind Owl takes his revenge at last. We can see how these different attitudes of the two characters
lead to the different outcomes in their real life. Inner suffering, and in turn, inner slavery, reside more
in a person who persists in his belief, on the other hand, a dynamic character achieves more peace at
the end of the story. |
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| ISSN: | 2308-5460 2308-5460 |