Modernization Character Analysis

Memduh Şevket Esendal 's novel Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları, it can be read as "Westernization" or "Modernization" story that started in the Tanzimat period and continued in the Republican period. At the beginning of the 1930s the urbanization project in Ankara was started and when the bureaucracy is strongest. And in the novel, how the concept of "freedom" is perceived and how it is incorporated into everyday life is discussed. The modernization project that was being implemented at that time, and how people are trying to create a new way of life can be revealed in this novel. However, despite the author 's criticism of the current situation, a hopeful statement about the future, seems to be related to the author 's official view and discourse.

This conflict may appear in inner conflict or conflict with society. Then it can be represented in story. So, Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları appropriate to “ Psychoanalytic Criticism” theory. Characters are important rather than plot structure. For this reason, we should focus on conflicts of characters rather than the story. Psychoanalytic criticism deal with mental states of characters. As a modern persona, he or she under pressure of society. In society, there are certain manners, some moral values and codes of conduct. Society and language control people. Every character can be analyzed according to his or her reactions, responses to pressure of society and how is she or he under the influence of his/her subconscious realm that we call motives and drives. So every individual character needs to assert himself or herself as he is as she is. Because everyone has own personality, own self as a

The most criticized topics are morality and bureaucracy. On page 15, with the republic, there are very serious criticisms about women. The behavior of women 's and their movements are not found right especially women 's hair and clothing. Also, women are generally free in their sexual preferences in Ayaşlı and Kiracıları. Even their marriage does not barrier for them. There is a woman whose name is Turan, although she is married, she has a forbidden relationship with narrator also with other mans. Also, banking games are played in her room. She is under the influence of her innerself and subconscious desires. She has some desires and she want to gain much more money. That is example of id because when we look at her behaviours, we can say that she follows her desires. At the same time this situations opposite to superego because superego provides the moral standards and it has a prohibitions and inhibitions form a persons’ conscience. The narrator 's relationship with Turan, it is like a sexual freedom because a woman does not hide from her husband. The following dialogues between the narrator and Hasan Bey are