A Comparison of Woman's Position in "Vays & Ramin" and "Bijan & Manijeh" Poems from Feminist Viewpoint

Subject Areas : Literary criticism

Esmaeel Hakemi ¹ , Raziyeh Zavarian ²

1 - Assistant Prof., Tehran University
2 - PhD, Islamic Azad University, Science & Research Campus

Received: 2012-05-22 Accepted : 2013-05-01 Published : 2013-05-01

Keywords: مکانة المرأة, إیران القدیمة, ویس, منیجه, القدر, النسویة, Woman's Position, the Ancient Iran, Vays, Manijeh, Destiny, feminist criticism,

Abstract :

   Finding a way into the woman's world and investigating on her personality and temperament has always attracted the attention of scientists, philosophers and scholars in each era. Understanding woman's role and position in the human's complementary process requires continuous investigations and researches to clarify the ambiguities and problems that have led to prejudices about her and have introduced her as "Eternally Guilty". In the ancient Iran, we see wise and smart women that not only do not get angry with contempt, and indifference, but also they have shown such a reaction that has shocked all political, cultural, legal and social structures governing the society. Vays is one of those women. The goal of this study is to present her real personality and determination by which she could resist against the destiny that had been determined for her by others. Efforts are made in this paper to address woman's position in the ancient Iran by considering two poems, namely "Vays & Ramin" by "Fakhredin As'ad Gorgani" and "Bijan & Manijeh" by "Ferdowsi" and to investigate the main characters of the poems, i.e., "Vays" and "Manijeh" in order to compare woman's role from feminist viewpoint by considering the setting of the two stories which goes back to Ashkanid era. Research method is of library type. The subjects were collected by referring to the resources and were described through analysis and reasoning. 

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