ROBERT BROWNING’İN “SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER” ADLI ESERİNDE AHLAKİ DELİLİK

Authors : Pelin KUT BELENLİ

Pages : 267-279

Doi:10.30794/pausbed.958607

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Publication Date : 2022-01-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Robert Browning’s dramatic work “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1842/1971); is an example of the psychological school of poetry in the context of Victorian poetry since the persona is portrayed as someone who feels an irrational and intense hatred towards a peer of his. The emotional state of the persona can be explained with moral insanity, a type of insanity defined by a Victorian psychologist, James Cowles Prichard. In this article, Prichard’s definition of and explanations for moral insanity as a type of insanity are used as reference points in the literary analysis of Browning’s “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister.” The poet’s use of the dramatic monologue, a major form in the poetry of psychology, is also scrutinised in this article regarding the advantages it offers for the effective psychological portraiture of the fictional character. As the literary analysis in this article shows, since the soliloquist is depicted as an individual with an emotional weakness, defect, or disorder, namely excessive hatred or rage, he resembles the patients of moral insanity. Furthermore, this study shows that there are no defects in the intellectual capacity of the speaker, which makes his case closer to the cases of moral insanity.
Keywords : Robert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Ahlaki Delilik, Viktorya Döneminde Psikoloji, Dramatik Monolog