Evaluation of the role of lie in daily life and Turkish tale type Keloğlan/The Bald-boy in the frame of Other-directedness schema domain

Özlem Demren; Bahar  Köse Karaca; Çağdaş  Demren

doi:10.14687/jhs.v17i4.6065

Authors

Özlem Demren Sivas Cumhuriyet University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8924-5367
Bahar Köse Karaca İstanbul Rumeli University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5316-6985
Çağdaş Demren Sivas Cumhuriyet University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14687/jhs.v17i4.6065

Keywords:

tales of keloğlan; lie; tricks; other-directedness.

Abstract

Tales as an oral narratives gives us some ideas about the perceptions and attitudes of the people in a society. In this paper, we try to get your attention to the Keloğlan as a Turkish tale type who gives us some ideas about the psychological motivations and perceptions in Turkish culture. The Turkish tale hero Keloğlan is a timeless/fitting all-time character who gives clues for today with his personality from past narratives to the present. In fact, fairy tales set boundaries and offer acceptable models. Actually Keloğlan isn’t really an ideal type but at the end of the tales, we come across with him as a type of winner. He always behaves against obstacles and inequity and he returns an ideal type. Lie is seen as a sympathetic trick in the Keloğlan tales. Keloğlan's lies and tricks are ignored by the society to the extent that he opposes injustice. Based on the Schema theory, we can say that the “other-directedness” schema domain is used in the tales of Keloğlan frequently, but in a way, related with lie. Keloğlan uses lie or manupilation for the reason of “approval seeking”, but as a way of defence against to the “self-subjugation” and “self-sacrifice”. In a sense, Keloğlan, as a Turkish tale type, shows us another aspect of society's approval mechanism.

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Author Biographies

Özlem Demren, Sivas Cumhuriyet University

Assist. Prof. Dr., Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Turkish Folklore

Bahar Köse Karaca, İstanbul Rumeli University

Assist. Prof. Dr., İstanbul Rumeli University, Faculty of Economics, Administrative And Social Sciences, Psychology Department

Çağdaş Demren, Sivas Cumhuriyet University

Assoc. Prof. Dr., Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Literature, Anthropology Department

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