Cihangir Keseli Essays - The Time Regulation Institute, Halit

Cihangir Keseli Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Zeki Crakl Comparative Literature 02 January 2018 The H umour E lements in "The Time Regulation Institute" by Ahmet Hamdi TANPINAR Abstract The paper takes in to the hand the Time Regulations Institute in a humorous way. I have decided to do this study, because when you read the Time Regulations Institute for the first time you cannot just notice the humor, but when you read it for the second time you can realize the ironic humor in the novel. The text starts with a short summary of a book and focuses on some quotes and events on the humorous way. I will try to show you a different side of this novel by examining these quotes. The paper also focuses on some characters such as Halit Ayarc and Hayri Irdal. Introduction As I was reading the novel, I rather find it a little bit complex to read. If you read it you can see the concurrence between the west and the east. A society who could not leave the east behind, and who could not have managed to reach the level of the west. I do not know why, but building a time regulation institute is a little ironic. Think of the part where they fine the ones who has wrong time on their watches. I always picture this in my mind; Think of a scene where Hayri and Halit bust the door and say "Everybody, freeze! We got an anonymous tip of you might be 7 minutes behind the actual time." It is funny and a bit ironic. I think everybody knew that it was a short period job when they are finding the institute. In the novel there are lots of humorous parts, but as you dig on them you can see that they are either ironic, or tragicomic. By tragicomic I mean that we laugh about it, but it is sad on the inside. Like when Halit Ayarc dies, Hayri's wife cries and mour ns him more then she should. Hayri says "He was a very good friend to her and to me". If you are a careful reader you can spot the fact that Hayri's wife was fooling around with Halit Ayarc. Halit Ayarc "The Adjuster" Halit Ayarc, an ironic name it is. You can translate Ayarc to English roughly as "adjuster". What is your name; "Halit, Adjuster Halit". He was adjusting people you can say that. In the institute there was people who was knitting, gossiping or simply people not doing anything, but waiting to get paid. When sometimes Hayri thought "We are not getting any job done, we are doing wrong" and starts having some bad ideas, Halit Ayarc would come and "adjust" him with his fancy words. He was adjusting everyone, he was making the best of his surname. When Hayri's aunt came angry to the institute, because she saw the paper about "Hayri forgives his aunt", Hayri was charming and seducing to his aunt she got softened easy, yet she was not ready to forgive Hayri. Then not giving it a too much though Halit just adjusted a new job for her and said "If you did not come to us we were going to come to you, since we could not think of anyone else who would suit this job better than you". Then she forgives Hayri thanks to the adjustments of Halit Ayarc. What is politics? How to do politics? All the answe rs lied within the Halit Ayarc. When Halit Ayarc markets this job so comfortably, even though he knows it is not going to last for too much, it shows that he knows very well about human consumption psychology. What I mean about human consumption psychology is that people buy and use things that they do not need. I believe the most important character in the novel is Halit Ayarc. Was he the good guy, the bad guy or was he a true hero? Everything is out for a debate, but he sure is extraordinary. He is like one of those people who shows up from time to time, and drifts people with himself, when providing a new perspective for everything and everyone he