III. INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ANGLOAMERICAN CULTURAL AND LITERARY STUDIES
CONVERSION OF AMERICAN DREAM INTO AMERICAN NIGHTMARE THROUGH CHAOTIC WORLD IN CARPENTER’S GOTHIC BY WILLIAM GADDIS
William Gaddis, who is one of the most effective author in 20th century, handles some themes as forgery, violence, identity, capitalism, imitation, alienation, racism, chaotic world by a critical language. These themes, which discussed by the author, are at a very significant point for comprehending the concepts such as sadness, grief, economic loss, psychological depression and the pursuit for prosperity, especially in striking periods of history such as the American Dream and the Great Depression. On the other hand, the concepts that Gaddis presents to the society through his works also contain a great deal of reality. In fact, these themes, which he handled in his works, submitted some historical section to the reader. “Carpenter’s Gothic” which include several references is also known as one of the masterpiece of the author and includes several substantial themes. The events take place in a single Victorian style house with a high tower that is ostentatious and extraordinary on the outside but qoph with consisting deception on the inside. Several essential constituents of this work which handled religious, political deception, and some benefits with affectionless emerge at the end of the novel. Moreover, it carries the reader to a place in the active and provides to use his or her brain as a parallel processor. Thus, it becomes easier and more qualified to analyse the relationship between epochal events and thought systems that added great turmoil to history and continues to have an impact in today's world. One of the author’s aims is to handle the themes of meaning, reality, and authenticity and to react against imitation and duplicity in this novel that explained Great Depression periods. In this study, a merciless, pseudo family’s troubles will be analysed in terms of themes such as chaotic world, religious, violence, discrimination and money. It will deduce that American Dream is not only a dream, yet it turns into a nightmare. The aim of this study is to convey the items used in the Carpenter Gothic as symbols of the period and to emphasize the contrasting meaning of these symbols with the American Dream.
