Manifestations of fear in anovel"Washam Nasie Albayadh" astudy in the Semiotics of passions
Salwa J. Salman AlNajjar
University of Kirkuk, College of Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.5.4.1.22
Keywords: semiotics, passions, the novel, emotional interaction
Abstract
This research is based on the manifestations of the semiotics of emotions in the novel (Washm Nasie Albayadh) which means'' bright white tattoo''. It is written by the Iraqi novelist Ali Lafta Saeed. The aim is to reveal the importance of emotional interaction through the events of the novel. This is especially when any narrative act is only an inevitable result of the feelings and emotions experienced by the character. The novel (Washm Nasie Albayadh) introduces us to the subject of war, its tragedies, its impact on the individual, and the psychological state that it leaves behind. This includes suffering from anxiety, fear, tension, and looking for peace and tranquility. Since the semiotics of emotions investigates emotional states related to the self, we will adopt in our study a plan based on a preface and two sections: The first section: lexical and semantic manifestation, and the second section is characterized by “Emotional Chart” which includes formation, preparation, tropical phrasing, emotion, and moral correctness. After reading the novel and investigating the most prominent emotions in it, we conclude that the writer has intensely embodied the feelings of fear until it became the dominant identity phenomenon. Along with the emergence of emotions, anxiety and anger are the closest feelings that overlap with the emotion of fear. The writer used description and metaphor to express and magnify the passions.
