Joseph Campbell’in Monomit Kuramı Bağlamında Zaloğlu Rüstem Hikâyesi ve Motif İncelemesi
Abstract
Carl Gustav Jung's archetype theory is the starting point of the monomyth theory developed by Joseph Campbell. Jung called all kinds of factors that indirectly affect the consciousness and directly affect the unconscious as "archetypes". The protagonist's journey happens in a circular fashion; in this manner, Campbell centered on the protagonist to explain that there is a common cycle in the structures of legends, myths, and stories. Archetypes are universal until they turn into domestic in folk tales. The folk tales containing rich symbolic elements are included in a narrative genre that possesses the circle told by Campbell. Tales shaped around the protagonist are the products of the public memory. Zaloğlu Rüstem, the subject of our study, is one of the important heroic figures in Persian mythology. For the protagonist to reach his/her inner self and complete the individuation process, s/he must break away from the world s/he is in, fight the obstacles he encounters, overcome these by adapting his/her physical and psychological strength, and reach maturity. As a result, in the last stage, s/he must pass to the stage of completion and return, having found his/her self-identity. The story is located at number 63 in Ali Berat Alptekin's book "The Motif Structure of Folk Stories", which is the main source of our study. This study will examine the story of Zaloğlu Rüstem in the context of monomyth theory. The positive completion of the stages specified by Cambell by the hero indicates that he has reached his inner self and that the individuation process has been completed.
Keywords
Story, Zaloglu Rustem, symbol, analysis, monomyth theory