Mizancı Murad’ın Unutulmuş Bir Eseri ve Edebiyat-ı Ahlâkiye Anlayışı Üzerine

Mehmet Murad is one of the most important intellectual and statesman of Tanzimat Reform Era. The condition of the country pushed him to find and suggest solutions for the society, as it pushed the intellectuals of the area. For this, he published Mîzan newspaper for a long period of time, despite the preventions of the government and issued his writings. He mainly voiced his political opinions in these writings. In his serial articles in which he uttered his literary opinions, he made criticisms. He stated his opinions on the previous and current situation of Turkish literature. In addition to this, he explained how the literature should be by giving examples from Western literature. According to him, literature should carry a national identity. According to this approach which he named as morality of literature, writers should create ideal role models that would lead the society to decency. The name of the single-written drama which was written by Mehmed Murad for the application of literature approach was “Tencere Yuvarlandı Kapağını Buldu” was not adapted into our current alphabet and it was hardly ever examined. This work which is a four-act comedy discusses the subject of marriage which is a social subject. Mehmet Murad tries to convert his message to the society on the equation of right and wrong through ideal and protagonist characters that he fictionalized in the work

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