chiman khoshnamay Bahramir; Teymoor Malmir
Volume 11, Issue 2 , May 2022, , Pages 177-195
Abstract
The epic and heroic narrations are reformed in various ways. The narration scrolls and vulgar and folk narratives are a means of recreating these stories. The author of Shahnameh, ...
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The epic and heroic narrations are reformed in various ways. The narration scrolls and vulgar and folk narratives are a means of recreating these stories. The author of Shahnameh, writers, scroll narrators and the narrators who narrate stories for generation, each choose a narrator and a particular point of view in accordance with their goals and attitudes to tell the story. In this research, we have analyzed the form and function of the narrator and the point of view in Rostam and Sohrab narratives. The question of this research is that how and in what point of view each narrator of this story emphasizes on some parts of the story or narrates it in a different way or with a different view rather than the original version? The result of the research indicates that the point of view of different narrators in Rostam and Sohrab narratives, is based on Fatalism. The narrator of Shahnameh, by mentioning the details of an event with pause and hesitation or generalization or omission, forms his own specific and intended discourse. The narrator of the scroll is an intervening narrator; he is constantly on the verge of revelation, judgment and interpretation and for the sake of the hero’s acceptance and admissibility as much as possible, he introduces him as a believer in religion. In the scrolls, due to the venue and the narrator's audience, the “character’s” action is based on society’s approbation and the common culture of the time. The narrator’s view of the woman in Shahnameh is different from that of the scrolls. The narrators have the same view about the battle of Gordafarid and Sohrab in every narrative and that is based on the prevalence of Gordafaris’s trick over her warfare skills.
