Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi

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Today, feminism and attitude towards women are important research topics in sociology studies and different cultural fields. This issue has also been discussed in the field of literature in the last few decades. It is considered a main theme especially in the works of women writers. Zoya Pirzad is one of the important writers of Contemporary Iranian Literature, who gives the main focus of her novel to women in the field of fictional literature and manages to describe the women's world with women's thought and women's pen. Pirzad frequently discusses feminine emotions and experiences with a feminine understanding and attitude in her works. Published in 1380 and the author's first long novel, I Turn Off the Lights, it is one of the women's novels that depicts the women's society and reveals certain thought patterns dominant in society. In this mentioned novel; regardless of ethnicity, class, lifestyle; It has been revealed the pressures that women are subjected to, which are often ignored, their feelings of alienation, loneliness, and their search for identity, from a brand new, feminine perspective. Considering the importance of women's existence in society today, it is essential to examine this novel from a woman's perspective and to destroy certain thought patterns about women. In her work, the author by showing a vivid depiction of the labyrinths in the mind and inner world of women, revealed the woman's world and the different dimensions of women's identity.Therefore, the main purpose of this research is; in Zoya Pirzad's novel I Turn Off the Lights, it is to examine women's struggle for social and individual existence and the different dimensions of her personality that determine her "mother", "wife", "lover" and "social" identities.