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Shakespeare'in sonelerinin Plato'nun biçimler teorisi ışığında bir okuması
(2012) Koç, Serkan; Hope, Trevor J.
Due to the mysterious characters and aspects, Shakespeare?s sonnets include debatable topics that are discussed by scholars. For this reason many scholars have approached the sonnets as if they are a puzzle. The mysterious Dark Lady, the young boy or the details of Shakespeare's personal life are a couple of examples to the questions that need to be answered. However, the answers given to these questions have only led to new questions. Therefore, I believe that focusing on the texts and avoiding these inexplicable questions would be more appropriate for my thesis. However, the fact that there are so many studies focusing on the search for real identities of the characters motivated me to scrutinize the reflections of concepts like reality and identity.Thus, the main aim of my study is to focus on the concepts of reality and appearance and their interaction. What comes next is the analysis of the perceptions of these concepts in Shakespeare's time. As a result of this analysis I concluded that Plato's philosophy had a great influence on Shakespeare and his works. In this context the aim of my thesis is to reveal the conflict between reality and appearance in Shakespeare's sonnets and analyze different variations of the same conflict in relation to Plato's views of the same issue.Therefore I wrote three main chapters that include different sonnets covering different themes. In these chapters I also used different sonnets and plays to support my arguments. In short, I came up with the conclusion that Shakespeare was influenced to a great extent by Plato's ideas concerning the conflict between reality and appearance. However, he did not simply replicate his ideas, but he rather questioned them and revised them with a new perspective.