The Story of Deli Dumrul and the Movie of the Seventh Seal Have the Common Theme that Connote: the İdea of Defeating the Death


Deli Dumrul is one of the twelve stories in the ancient Turkish legend Dede Korkut written in the fifteenth century. The Seventh Seal is a film directed by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman in 1957. Although there are about five centuries of time between them, there is a common theme among these two works. Deli Dumrul and the Seventh Seal are the main characters of the film. Antonius Block who oppose the death of Azrael and eventually defeat him. Deli Dumrul strong and brave Oguz young man. He is a character who obeys Azrael in a way that takes a younger soul to death and tries to quarrel with death. Finally he can not defeat him. Antonius Block, the main hero of the Seventh Seal of Film. He is a medieval knight who returns from the crusade is tired of war, and doubts by God when he sees the veil. But Block approached Azrael like Deli Dumrul when his death approached. He continued to play chess. Knowing that his life will be lost, the knight has extended the Azrail as long as the game is extended to distract him. But the result has not changed as it is in Deli Dumrul's story. Because it is not possible to defeat death. Despite the fact that Deli Dumrul's story is Islam and the Seventh Seal is the works bearing the traces of Christianity. The common point between these two is that they should give similar suggestions about the unchangeable fate of man. Therefore in this study the issue of dealing with death through the characters of Deli Dumrul's Story Deli Dumrul and the Seventh Seal's Antonius Block characters was handled comparatively.


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Dede Korkut, Deli Dumrul, Ingmar Bergman, Seventh Seal, Death

Author : Necati SÜMER
Number of pages: 407-421
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.12531
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Journal of Turkish Studies
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