THE CIRCULAR STRUCTURE OF LESSING’S BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL

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dc.contributor.authorMatosoğlu, Aleks
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-09T18:08:02Z
dc.date.available2025-03-09T18:08:02Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.departmentBeykent Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractDorris Lessing’s Briefing for a Descent into Hell presents a circular journey that the protagonist Charles Watkins, a Classics professor goes through. Taken in a hospital, Charles suffers from amnesia. Ironically what he has forgotten seems to have made him ready for the journey that he is about to take into his inner self. As the novel progresses, it is made clear that this journey is not to be taken to remember the orthodoxy that he has forgotten but to remember what orthodoxy has made him forget. Through this journey, Charles Watkins gathers bits and pieces of information on what has been made to forget. While the novel thematically revolves around this issue of inner journey into the self, structurally the novel revolves around the same or similar patterns that are being established in the course of the novel. In this way, while Charles is on his own journey, the reader is also forced to take part in his journey as he/ she is forced to work out his or her way through the similar patterns to make meaning through the reading process. Charles and the reader find certain variations of a similar pattern in themes, narration and in the symbolism that all suggest the circularity of the whole novel. In each time Charles and the reader goes through the similar patterns, a new link is made to the already existent knowledge leading to a self that knows more itself than it has never experienced before.
dc.description.abstractDorris Lessing’s Briefing for a Descent into Hell presents a circular journey that the protagonist Charles Watkins, a Classics professor goes through. Taken in a hospital, Charles suffers from amnesia. Ironically what he has forgotten seems to have made him ready for the journey that he is about to take into his inner self. As the novel progresses, it is made clear that this journey is not to be taken to remember the orthodoxy that he has forgotten but to remember what orthodoxy has made him forget. Through this journey, Charles Watkins gathers bits and pieces of information on what has been made to forget. While the novel thematically revolves around this issue of inner journey into the self, structurally the novel revolves around the same or similar patterns that are being established in the course of the novel. In this way, while Charles is on his own journey, the reader is also forced to take part in his journey as he/ she is forced to work out his or her way through the similar patterns to make meaning through the reading process. Charles and the reader find certain variations of a similar pattern in themes, narration and in the symbolism that all suggest the circularity of the whole novel. In each time Charles and the reader goes through the similar patterns, a new link is made to the already existent knowledge, leading to a self that knows more itself than it has never experienced before.
dc.identifier.endpage27
dc.identifier.issn2148-2705
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.startpage17
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12662/5297
dc.identifier.volume2
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBilim Eğitim Kültür Akademi Derneği
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Languages' Education and Teaching
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_DergiPark_20250309
dc.subjectDorris Lessing
dc.subjectBriefing for a Descent into Hell
dc.subjectcircular
dc.subjectstructure
dc.subjectsymbolism
dc.subjectnarration
dc.subjectstructuralism
dc.subjectarchetypes
dc.subjectSufis
dc.subjectDorris Lessing
dc.subjectBriefing for a Descent into Hell
dc.subjectcircular
dc.subjectstructure
dc.subjectsymbolism
dc.subjectnarration
dc.subjectstructuralism
dc.subjectarchetypes
dc.subjectSufis
dc.titleTHE CIRCULAR STRUCTURE OF LESSING’S BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL
dc.title.alternativeTHE CIRCULAR STRUCTURE OF LESSING’S BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL
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