Abstract:

Novels are one of the important tools for examining the issue of discrimination. For this, the readers must be able to be understood in order to be brought to the novels. Otherwise, we do not notice that the discriminatory appearances or language and style that are used visually are repeated and proven in the novels. In the context of the novel, discrimination refers to the fact that the narrator and/or the figure belong to a group of figures or individual members of that group; race, ethnicity, color; gender identity, gender, sexual orientation; tongue; religion, belief and denomination; political and philosophical view; fortune; disability; discriminates on the basis of age or any other difference. Factors that cause discrimination appear in the form of "prejudice", "dogma", "interest" and the expression of discrimination "hate speech", "perpetuating violence", "nepotism". The model of "analyzing the novels in the context of discrimination", which I suggested to raise awareness of the readers about discrimination, was applied to Peyami Safa's novels here. As a result, it was examined whether the narrator discriminated against the figure(s) and/or the figure(s) or not. In his novels, it was seen that discrimination based on race, discrimination based on sexual identity, discrimination based on political and philosophical views, discrimination based on wealth, discrimination based on disability, discrimination based on age were made. The narrator and the figures, who are the basic elements of the novel, can also respect the "rights of figures"; They may also violate “figure rights”. In the first, with a rough distinction, the author's "democratic attitude"; In the second, it can be said that it stands closer to the “authoritarian attitude”. Although he gives the psychological depths of the figures very well, it is seen that Peyami Safa is not far from authoritarian understanding.

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