Yapay Zekaya Yönelik Tutumlar, Dijital Asistanların Gizlilik Riskleri ve Aile Bağlarıyla Etkileşimi: Nicel Bir İnceleme

IX International Applied Social Sciences Congress (C-IASOS 2025), Rome, İtalya, 13 - 15 Ekim 2025, ss.158-159, (Özet Bildiri)

Introduction: The conflict between father and son is an old and persistent theme in world

literature, reflected in epic tales and modern narratives due to society’s interpretation of

authority, love, and rebellion. Each retelling adapts the same core tension to its own cultural,

historical, and psychological setting.

Aim: This research explores the enduring presence of that theme through three works that,

though distant in time, share a single concern: Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, the Old High German

Hildebrandslied, and Franz Kafka’s Letters to His Father. It examines how the father–son

conflict changes meaning as it moves from the heroic to the psychological, from fate and duty to

conscience and identity.

Method: The study uses a comparative literary approach grounded in close textual reading.

Attention is given to how each text places the conflict within its historical and philosophical

framework, tracing the transformation of the motif from epic action to modern introspection.

Findings: In the Shahnameh, the struggle between Rostam and Sohrab reveals the tragic price

of divine and social duty. Hildebrandslied presents a similar confrontation, defined by the codes

of loyalty and honor that govern early Germanic life. Kafka, writing in a modern world, moves

the battle inward: the father’s authority becomes moral and psychological, his weapons replaced

by words. Together, these works show how the same human struggle survives across time—

altered in form, but constant in feeling.

Conclusion: The father–son conflict remains a living archetype. It shifts from the fatalism of

ancient epics to the self-questioning of modern thought, keeping alive the tension between

freedom, obedience, and inherited power.

Originality and Value: By placing epic and modern texts side by side, this study highlights how

a timeless literary pattern renews itself across cultures. The study highlights a recurring theme

of father–son conflict in the context of shifting identity, authority, and family bonds.