‘SEEN’ VERSUS ‘UNSEEN’ IN ELIF SHAFAK’S “THE GAZE”
‘SEEN’ VERSUS ‘UNSEEN’ IN ELIF SHAFAK’S “THE GAZE”

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the two worlds which determine and ultimately destroy a couple’s love relationship in Elif Shafak’s third novel, “The Gaze”. The two protagonists, an obese woman and a dwarf, have to cope with the world’s gazes and, at the same time, with their own inner torments, caused by an ‘unseen’ world. Ultimately, the ‘seen’ wins over the hidden world of feelings and thoughts.

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