ELİF ŞAFAK’IN İSKENDER ROMANINDA, KURGUNUN ELE ALINIŞ BİÇİMİ, ÇATIŞMA UNSURLARI VE KARAKTERLER
IN THE NOVEL OF ELIF SAFAK NAMED ALEXANDER FICTION, CONFLICT ELEMENTS AND CHARACTERS

Summary/Abstract: Elif Şafak, who -in most of her novels- has focused on issues like east-west, tradition-modernity, love-mysticism, women's identities and women's problems in Turkish Literature since her first novel Pinhan, discusses honor killing in her novel İskender. Although this novel simply takes a tragic story between a mother and son or the honor killing at the center of the novel, the writer basically tries to question many different subjects such as the social status and position of women, existential conflicts imposed by the east-west tradition, patriarchal tradition and so on by linking them with main subject. This study was created by focusing on Elif Şafak's İskender, the way the events were discussed, elements of conflict and characters. In the study, frstly the relations between plots that formed the work were tried to be solved, and frequently used narration method were identifıed. Then the factors of conflict, the features of protagonists and their functions in the work were tried to be determined respectively.

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