Dream Concept in the Works of Washington Irving
Sevil Qurbanova
Master Student
Qafqaz University sevil.qurbanova@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Walking on the cotton-shaped clouds… Sounds extraordinarily and combines mystics in self. When people close eyes with the eager to live in a dream they are becoming detached part of the world. Nothing could be emerged without the reason. The reason of this feeling could be raised in accordance with happiness and/or running from existing problems surrounded the person. Periodically the authors appealed to the “Dream” concept in their works. Among the collection of these works we can point out “Epimenides” written by Diogenes Laertius. The father of Epimenides sent him to the field to look for a sheep, returning …show more content…
It is an opening window into the reality world through which the rays of the sun fall into the room to light the darkness. At the same time the dreams reflect the inner world of the people to accompany through the lifetime in evaluation the surrounding processes and circumstances. Dreams which from the scientific point of view are connected with physical factors play main role in human being’s life. We all know that as a human being person spends a great part of the life in dream. Another main point of dreams is their connections with dream and reality. They could give any information from the past as well as they could warn a person about …show more content…
Like European authors the American ones used the elements of this style for the purpose of enriching their works. Writers of the time were unable to write the masterpiece without depiction of the elements of Gothic literature including the settings, dreams full of mysteries, serious cries to show the reality of the spoken time under the cover of humor, irony, sarcasm, metonymy. Especially short stories attracted the attention of majority people of the time with their powerful contents. One second lets imagine the general depiction of some Gothic elements in works: left, fearful, cold, dark, moss covered castles; mysterious dreams predicting the further events that would be happened, mysterious dreams causing the sweating with fear; annoying and anxious sounds coming from outside, specially from castles, mountains, forests, graveyards… Besides the abovementioned elements, the description of wives from the negative sides including their grumblings captured the great part of the Gothic elements. This approach to the women in works annoyed the critics. Sometimes the critics criticize such works as anti-feminist
Sevil Qurbanova
Master Student
Qafqaz University sevil.qurbanova@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Walking on the cotton-shaped clouds… Sounds extraordinarily and combines mystics in self. When people close eyes with the eager to live in a dream they are becoming detached part of the world. Nothing could be emerged without the reason. The reason of this feeling could be raised in accordance with happiness and/or running from existing problems surrounded the person. Periodically the authors appealed to the “Dream” concept in their works. Among the collection of these works we can point out “Epimenides” written by Diogenes Laertius. The father of Epimenides sent him to the field to look for a sheep, returning …show more content…
It is an opening window into the reality world through which the rays of the sun fall into the room to light the darkness. At the same time the dreams reflect the inner world of the people to accompany through the lifetime in evaluation the surrounding processes and circumstances. Dreams which from the scientific point of view are connected with physical factors play main role in human being’s life. We all know that as a human being person spends a great part of the life in dream. Another main point of dreams is their connections with dream and reality. They could give any information from the past as well as they could warn a person about …show more content…
Like European authors the American ones used the elements of this style for the purpose of enriching their works. Writers of the time were unable to write the masterpiece without depiction of the elements of Gothic literature including the settings, dreams full of mysteries, serious cries to show the reality of the spoken time under the cover of humor, irony, sarcasm, metonymy. Especially short stories attracted the attention of majority people of the time with their powerful contents. One second lets imagine the general depiction of some Gothic elements in works: left, fearful, cold, dark, moss covered castles; mysterious dreams predicting the further events that would be happened, mysterious dreams causing the sweating with fear; annoying and anxious sounds coming from outside, specially from castles, mountains, forests, graveyards… Besides the abovementioned elements, the description of wives from the negative sides including their grumblings captured the great part of the Gothic elements. This approach to the women in works annoyed the critics. Sometimes the critics criticize such works as anti-feminist