III. INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ANGLOAMERICAN CULTURAL AND LITERARY STUDIES
HAMLET AND FRANKENSTEIN: INDIVIDUAL CONFLICT AND SOCIAL REFLECTIONS IN THE DEPTHS OF MORAL DILEMMA
This study analyses the social reflections of individual internal conflicts in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Both works deal with the inner conflicts, wills, and moral dilemmas of the characters and question what the social consequences may be in line with the actions of individuals. In Hamlet, Hamlet, who wants to take revenge, is confronted with the murder of his uncle Claudius and is torn between his moral values and his personal desires. This situation causes him to experience an inner conflict and leads to a deep questioning of how the quest for revenge affects the social balance. Hamlet's quest for revenge, which individual guides will, not only shakes the social balance but also the inevitability of fate in the context of collective will plays an important role in the flow of events. Similarly, in Frankenstein, when Victor Frankenstein encounters the monster he created by pushing the limits of science, he is confronted with its isolation by society, which causes Victor to question his responsibilities and the social effects of the being he created. While Victor's free will, on the one hand, glorifies the human capacity to access knowledge and push the limits, on the other hand, the message that uncontrolled individual actions can threaten social order and moral values is analyzed from a different perspective. In terms of moral ethics, both works emphasize the repercussions of the consequences of individuals' decisions on themselves and society. One of the aims of the article is to understand the effects of the inner worlds of individuals on social structures and to reveal the social reflections of moral decisions.
