Our Entire Future and the Past Are Actually Stories We Tell Ourselves and Others
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2014
Yazarlar: Fulya Kincal
International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, Uluslararası, 2014, cilt 5, ss 227-232
DOI: 10.7763/ijssh.2015.v5.458
Özet
Being human inevitably means attaching meaning to essentially meaningless universe.Storytelling is the simplest way of attaching meaning and what differentiates human beings from other inhabitants of the world.In this context, our reality is determined by the stories.Like every work of literature, life of human beings is an intertext where different texts, styles and themes interact in a story-like order.In their novels Don Quixote and Never Let Me Go both Cervantes and Kazuoro Ishiguro are showing that stories can generalize and extract the truth by penetrating to the hearth of human condition.As such, these stories mature man's knowledge about himself and the world.Both writers assert that as times passes we experience different stories and our world is continuously altered by the new stories.Through stories we internalize our environment, our past and present.From this perspective, this paper aims to demonstrate our own position regarding to stories in life and common features of human beings referring to the tradition of storytelling.