Sanat Teorisi

Orhan Pamuk’un Beyaz Kale Romanında Ayna Oyunları 

Genelde ayna varlıkların görüntüsünü yansıtan ya da süs olarak kullanılan eşyalardan biri olarak düşünülür. Aynanın en önemli fonksiyonlardan biri; kişinin kimliğini bulmasını ve duygusal kişiliğini yaratmasını sağlamaktır. İnsan, aynaya baktığında kendini, neyin kendisini özel kıldığını ve kim olduğunu düşünürken bulur. Orhan Pamuk’un ‘Beyaz Kale’ romanında çeşitli ayna motifleri gösterilmektedir.

Yazar : Veronika Zagvozdkina

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of --
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love--
I and my --
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful ;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me--
Yes!--that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my .

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we--
Of many far wiser than we--
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful :

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful :
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful :
And so, all the night-tide, I lay down by the side
Of my darling--my darling--my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea--
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Şair : Edgar Allan Poe