Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Hossein Mohammadi ¹
• Afsaneh Hasanzadeh Dastjerdi ²

¹ Persian Language and Literature Dep./ GKU

² Persian Language and literature/ Rafsanjan University

Abstract

Among the Persian texts, we encounter a few anecdotes that, although in structure, they can be equated with other similar anecdotes, have different themes. The theme of these anecdotes is blaming one of the properties of religion. These anecdotes are related to time periods and different speakers and the sharing of their structure makes the reader's mind aware of the fundamental system that the anecdotes have come up with. In this essay, based on the structuralism school and using the Propp method in the morphology of folk tales, we first have discussed the structural analysis of these anecdotes. Then the relationship between this surface structure and its deep structure (society and religion) is explored and explained. The result is that these anecdotes come from a hierarchical system in which, on the basis of the blaming thought and the principles of magnanimity, the friends are blamed to learn the enemies and to persuade them to turn to the right path.

Keywords

• Structuralism
• Vladimir Propp
• blame
• magnanimity
• Malāmatiyeh

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