Morphological Analysis and Investigating Good and Evil tale from Haft Peikar of Nezami

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

Mina Khadem Foghara ¹ (PHD student of Persian language and literature, Azad Islamic University of Najaf Abad - [e-mail])
Ata Mohammad Radmanesh ² (An associate prefessor at persian Language and literature of Azad University Najaf Abad)

Received: 2015-06-29 Accepted : 2015-10-02 Published : 2015-11-22

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Abstract :

The Pentad (Khamse) by Nezami is among the literary works that has been attractive for literary people. The poetical narrative of Haft Peikar is the fourth piece from the Pentad that includes adventurous tales. The theme of this piece is the tale of Bahram Gour from birth to death. One of the tales of the piece is the Good and Evil tale that illustrates Bahram Gour sitting on the dome seat on Thursday and storytelling by the king’s daughter of region VI. In this article, first comes the summary of the tale and then the structure of the tale is analyzed on the basis of Vladimir Propp’s morphological patterns. Propp believed that there are some rules governing all folk tales and after studying them and by correct formulization the structure is obtained. Beside presenting the features of the tale and explaining some elements, the author of the article tries to investigate the structure of the tale through dividing it into smaller structures based on the mentioned patterns and shows that Good and Evil tale is an educational-lyrical tale and one of the moral tales of Haft Peikar collection.