“Sinağrit Baba” ve “Köpek Balıkları İnsan Olsaydı” İsimli Kısa Öykülerde Sistem ve Toplum Eleştirisi
System and Society Criticism in the short stories “Sinagrite Father” and “If Sharks Were Human”

Summary/Abstract: Human beings are the only creatures that "evaluate their actions within a certain meaning, select them and take responsibility for what they encounter as a result. However, in an unequal system where the strong rule over the weak, individuals become dependent, obedient and to be pasture individuals over time. In this context, the factor that brought together Bertolt Brecht and Sait Faik Abasıyanık, who lived in different nations in the same period, at a common point; their belief that every problem encountered at the level of individual and society can be solved by taking the mind as a guide and assimilating the critical view. In this study, written in two different geographies, in two different languages; Sait Faik's short story Sinagrite Father and Bertolt Brecht's short story If Sharks Were Human were handled with hermeneutic method. Purpose; to explain the critical attitude of both authors towards the system and society with a comparative understanding. As a result of the study, it has been observed that in the short stories that both authors deal with an allegorical narrative, they bring a universal criticism towards the oppositions such as strong/weak, oppressor/oppressed, active/passive degeneration of human beings and the existing system that causes it.

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