The Sea in the Novels Aganta Burina Burinata by the Fisherman of Halicarnassus and Sail and Storm by Hanna Mina

Abstract

This research aims to explain the sea image in Aganta Burina Burinata by the Fisherman of Halicarnassus and Sail and Storm by Hanna Mina in a comparative way. In this sense, the American Literature School approach, which shows the aesthetics of the similarities and differences between the sea images in the two narratives, was taken as a basis in this study. The reason for this is that the American school focuses on the aesthetic cooperations between the literatures of different nations and does not attach importance to the issues of influence. The research is in four parts, the first of which is the narrative language and the role of the sea image in the fictional depiction of words, sentences, and narrative passages in two novels, and the forms of conflict between man and nature. The second part discusses the role of the land in shaping the sea territory while analyzing the existence of closed and open spaces and the effect of open spaces in the two novels. The focus is on the ability of the narrative style to express the sea territory where the events in both novels take place. The third part compares the techniques of the narrative time, the role of flashbacks in shedding light on the background of the characters, and the techniques such as foreshadowing, which means predicting some future events to arouse the reader's curiosity. The fourth part focuses on the comparison of the sea vision from the perspectives of the protagonists in the novels Purinata and Sail and Storm. This article reveals the similarity of the narrative in the two novels in terms of describing the lives of sailors, dockers and fishermen, and also contributed to the understanding of history. The research showed th analyzing at the open places were more present than the closed ones, and the sea appeared as a haven for the hero of the two novels to resort to escape from the world of land and its contradictions and conflicts that occur in it as a result of human greed, and their desire to adapt nature to achieve their goals, while the sea was a field for self-search, dreaming, and contemplation.