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Item Analyzing Ahmet Umit's Bir Ask Masalı Through Campbell's Monomyth Theory(FOLKLOR/EDEBIYAT-FOLKLORE/LITERATURE, 2024-11-26) Gulveren, Ozlem BayFairy tales, which have survived from generation to generation in oral culture and have been reintroduced with the transition to written culture, continue to hold their place and importance in contemporary literature. Today's writers create modern narratives, which we can call literary fairy tales- though definitions may vary-, by utilizing the form and content characteristics of fairy tales and the possibilities they offer. In this text-immanent study, I examined Ahmet Omit's work Bir A & scedil;k Masal & imath; as an example of contemporary narratives, due to its inclusion of elements of fairy tales and mythology, within the framework of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth Theory, which he outlined in his work The Hero with a Thousand Faces and can be summarized under the headings of "Departure-Initiation-Return". In the article, I first provided brief information about fairy tales, traditional folk tales, and literary fairy tales, and then attempted to summarize Campbell's Monomyth Theory in connection with Jung's concept of "archetype". In the analysis section, I evaluated the content of the tale under the headings of "Departure", "Initiation", and "Return" respectively. As a result of my examination, I found that the enchanting narrative created by Ahmet Omit aligns with the main headings of Campbell's Monomyth Theory but does not fully meet some subheadings and shifts others to different stages of the cycle. In the modern tale I examined, I find it noteworthy that the cycle Campbell presented is not completed, and the heroes fail to achieve any subheading of the return stage. The author chose to make each of the heroes, who embarked on a journey in search of true love and completed the initial stages of the cycle, fail in the final stages for the same reason. The characters who have not managed to detach themselves from their egos cannot be expected to "become heroes." It would not be inaccurate to assert that the author has created anti-heroes, divergent from the conventional heroes found in traditional fairy tales. In this modern tale, the story of traditional fairy tale heroes who return home with the ultimate reward after maturing has been replaced by the story of heroes who, moving in the opposite direction, succumb to their ambitions and will never return home.