ORHAN PAMUK’S SHEKURE, IPEK AND JANAN: THREE WOMEN CHERISHED BY NUMEROUS MEN
ORHAN PAMUK’UN ŞEKÜRE, İPEK VE CANAN’I: PEK ÇOK ERKEĞİN DEĞER VERDİĞİ ÜÇ KADIN

Author : Alpaslan Toker
Number of pages : 102-117

Abstract

Women have been exercising a considerable influence on men through beauty, charms, characters, and other physical attributes since the dawn of human history. This article attempts to discover and to highlight this power of women over men with particular examples taken from Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red, Snow and The New Life. Major women characters, Shekure, Ipek and Janan, are centers of attention and have been admired and cherished by numerous male characters in above-mentioned novels. In My Name is Red, Shekure embellishes the fantasies of three major admirers: Black, Hasan and Olive because of her exceptional beauty. In Snow, three admirers, by the names of Ka, Blue and Muhtar, are fascinated with Ipek’s beauty and each in his own way attempts to obtain her good graces. Finally in The New Life, Janan stimulates the feelings of love and affection in three men, namely Mehmet, Osman and Dr. Mehmet. She charmingly entices her admirers and makes them compete with each other in order to win over her heart especially Mehmet and Osman.

Keywords

Women, cherish, male characters, My Name is Red, Snow, The New Life

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