Juliusz Słowacki’nin Başkahramanı “Kordian” Üzerine Bir İnceleme
Protagonist of Juliusz Słowacki “Kordian”

Summary/Abstract: Juliusz Słowacki is considered to be the master of the Polish drama. During the forty years of his short life, he had witnessed many significant historical events that he reflected in his verse novels. His three-act work called Kordian has gained an important place in Polish literature of the Romantic period. The drama, in which the rule of three unities is ignored and the realistic events intertwine with the surrealistic ones, takes its name from the main character called Kordian as well. Act 1 tells about Kordian’s love affair. It turns out to be an unrequited love, which leads the protagonist to a failed suicide attempt. In Act 2, he travels across Europe. This particular journey should be seen from the perspective of the fact that no one in Europe was interested in the fate of Poles forced to live in servitude. Following his successive disappointments, the main character goes through a change at the peak of Mont Blanc and becomes an entirely new Kordian. As it can be seen in most of the works of that period in Polish literature, Kordian turns to be a character putting the independence of his nation above all. Thus, fighting against the enemy becomes his passion afterwards. The reason is that the aim of the Romantic ideology in Poland was to preserve the national values. As a consequence, in Act 3 Kordian joins a group organising an assassination attempt on the tsar. In this paper, Kordian’s personality, his change and fight against the Russian tsar will be examined within the characteristics of literature of the period. Also, the Polish and the Latin meaning of the protagonist’s name will be analysed.

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