WESTERN PORTRAYAL IN “FORBIDDEN LOVE” BY HALID ZIYAUŞAKLIGIL JOINT RESEARCH PAPER

Abstract

The great Turkish writer Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, who lived between 1865 to 1945, kept his literary fame for decades after his death. This came as a result of his contribution in the modern Turkish Literature. The reason behind this fame is due to his unique works. HalidZiya is considered one of the most important Turkish writers in the twentieth century. He enriched the Turkish literature with several literary works. He is considered in the first position among writers and authors because of the variety of his writing in addition to poetry, especially in the field of writing novels, and short stories. This variety came, in the first place, as a result of his passion toward French literature and the impact of it on him. He had a good knowledge of the western literature. He is considered on of the first Turkish novelists who wrote in the European (Western) style. He wrote literary works that bear the western literature concept. Halid Ziya occupied a high position in the field of prose. He became famous after publishing his novel “Aşk-ı Memnû” or “Forbidden Love”. It is considered one of the most important work among his novels in the history of modern Turkish Literature. Halid Ziya owned a good knowledge in the structure of the Turkish literature and its directions. The novel “Forbidden Love” is considered the best example in the field of literature because it showed his wide scope of knowledge successfully. He explored in this novel a detailed and analytical study of the Turkish grammar. We depend mainly in our research paper on this novel. It studies the different changes in time in the novel which is clear in the field of prose and the artistic work in the TV series nowadays. The novel “Forbidden Love” embodied main characters who are Nihal, Bahlool, Bihter, Adnan, and Basheer. The novel revolved on