Similar Women Characters In Turkish Folk Tales and Novels

As it is known literary genres are a mirror of the society that containing the realities of life. It is necessary to look at these mirrors for to analyze the societies today. For this reason we need to know different cultures, and we must continue our dialogue process for to recognize the societies to prevent conflicts of inter-communal cultures and to ensure global peace. To achieve this recognition process we must take advantage of the literary species like folk tales, novels and stories of societies. In this article we able to recognize Turkish society examining different literary types as folk tale and modern novel and stories. Turkish female characters emerged at different times with different specifications. Women emerge as an innocent or cheated character in the form of folk tales. Besides, women can be seen as idealistic women, prostitutes, of step-mothers or Anatolian women in the fairy tales generally. There are prototypes of modern female characters in fairy tales. However, more realistic female characters can be found in modern novels and stories. Women constitute the core of the Turkish society. We need to know Turkish women for to understand the Turkish culture. Turkish women appear in both fairy tales and modern literary genres as frantic and unselfish characteristics. The historical development of Turkish women and their different roles in different centuries, it is possible to follow along with the development of literary genres. Literary genres are like a mirror to recognize women heroes. Women were handled in this mirror with their social and cultural environment. Women characters in literary genres are important factor to recognize the Turkish society considering that women are the core of in Turkish society.

Keywords

Turkish women characters, Kilis folk tales, some novels and stories of modern Turkish literature.