McEwan's Novels - Victims more than Villains: Images of the Child in Kitap Açıklaması: This dissertation aims to examine the situation of the child characters in a social and domestic context where the adult dominancy is currently superior in McEwan’s novels. The importance of this dissertation derives from connection between British contemporary literature and children in literature. It employs the concept of exploitation of child characters by adults’ authority as a generic theme in which perverse attitudes, vanishing and early deaths and intruding into the adult world of the children are questioned as a self defence to be able to cope with the pre-established adult impositions or as a protection of any other person who is under threat.My intention is not to absolve the child characters’ potential to do harm but to underline and scrutinise at under what circumstances a child becomes evil? Since the old beliefs such as either the children are innately good or innately evil have been deconstructed earlier