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Human being is motivated with being powered beyond its fundamental needs. An individual who has entered a depression of value after Modernism, not only did watch the death of the God, but also created his/her own area of potency as a sign of will power. This area of potency is sometimes maintained withİnönü Üniversitesi Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Cilt 10, Sayı 1, (2021), http://dergipark.gov.tr/inijoss 209 returning to primary house where one could feel oneself strong by running away from metropolis, or sometimes on a level where the one trying to overcome oneself or another. According to Nietzsche, morals and value judgements are determined by desires and instincts of strong or weak people who are from the conditions or order of the day. With this sight we could state that, fundamental essence of life is formed by the instinct of being dominant and then managing. If an individual who wants to be powerful and dominant does not find what he/she wants from Metropolis or does not find himself/herself strong enough, he/she shows a tendency of returning to the first place where he/she feels powerful. That first place which resembles the mother’s uterus, the safety place, the first home is the land where one was born. Aydın, who is the protagonist of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s immortal piece “Winter Sleep”, is a retired theatre player who is trying to create an area of power where he makes himself obeyed. Aydın runs a hotel which was inherited, with his wife Nihal and his sister Necla. In this study, coming from the concept of Nietzsche’s will to power; semiotics of the will power of characters in this movie and paradox of modernism will be examined with the approach of loneliness path of criticizing discourse