Boyacioglu, FuatKol, Hulya2020-03-262020-03-2620161300-49212458-908Xhttps://dx.doi.org/10.21497/sefad.99647https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12395/34111In Gide' five novels named Andre Walter's Books (Les Cahiers d'Andre Walter), The Immoralist (L'Immoraliste), The Narrow Gate (La Porte etroit), Isabelle, The Rural Symphony (La Symhonie Pastoral) it is seen a protagonist trying to create firstly an absolute and unchangeable doctrine for himself, then feeling repulsion from his romanesque world while making contact with the external world and real life and afterward jugding and criticizing his former senses. A three-stage psychological evolution is seen in this protagonist. In Immoralist Gide shows us the evolution in three stages of his hero Michel who, liberated from the protestant moral conception, opposes to the traditional moralism and tries to obtain an absolute freedom. In the first step, the hero constitutes an absolute freedom conception incompatible withe the real life under the influnce of Menalque, philosopher whose philosophy consists of immoralism and hedonism. In the second stage, Michel struggles to obtain an absolute freedom and strives to practice his doctrine: Michel is attracted to people living in poor and devoid of life wisdom. He neglects his wife who becomes ill. He lives the goings and comings between the good and the evil. He prefers the evil. He causes the death of his wife. He becomes a prisoner of his pedofile passions and desires. In the third step, Michel faces to the reality of life. He is depressed and does not know how to get out. He discovers that the absolute freedom doctrine carries him to the misery and the disappointment and doesn't bring the happiness. The fact that he repents of his pervers sexual relations and he invokes to his friends show us the irony of the absolute freedom doctrine.fe10.21497/sefad.99647info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessIroniGideromannarrative techniqueabsolute freedomArticle3583104#YOKWOS:000440377800006N/A