Impactful Expressions From The Literary Works Of Halide Edip Adıvar

Halide Edip is a distinguished author of Turkish literature with her unique expression of feelings, her strong character, and her influential writing style. In our article we would like to introduce her to the readers with selected pieces from her works. Necessary explanations are also provided throughout this article so that the examples make the most sense to readers. Childhood memories, ideological discussions, political problems of homeland, and psychological analysis of women were common subjects in her articles and novels. Here, some impactful examples were provided to demonstrate her strong ability as a talented writer. Her lyric words described powerfully how an empire was going down and how she became a part of rescuing fatherland. Also we will see examples how she masterfully explained her emotional world during all the turmoil in the surrounding. Halide Edip was an author who was strongly influenced by the Western education she got in her early ages. As a voracious reader she got through all the classics of Western literature and she was able to articulate them in a unique and original style in her later works. Besides, she was a skillful public speaker. During the starting days of the national struggle she addressed to a large audience in Sultan Ahmet Square where she condemned the occupation of Izmir by Greek armed forces. Many critiques agree that her speech was so powerful that many people from the audience was so inspired that they decided to join the national forces forming in Central Anatolia. This is a clear indication that she was a master of transforming ideas into real life motion. Although she got immersed into Western culture so young she was able to retain her nationalistic and religious feelings. It can be claimed that these feelings were developed as a reaction to her vulnerability towards Western culture. As a nationalist and religious woman but also modernistic woman figure she was undoubtedly a new line of thought in Ottoman Society of 20th century. After the World War I she participated actively to the National Struggle as a soldier next to Mustafa Kemal Pasha, leader of the National Movement. She shared Mustafa Kemal’s vision of fully independent Turkey as she realized how imminent the collapse of Ottoman Empire was. After the successful ending of the National Movement, however, Mustafa Kemal Pasha and Halide Edip’s views strongly

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Halide Edip Adıvar, intellectual texts, short story, novel, National Movement.