Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 15، number In Volume 12، March 2023 ، issue Number 82

Comparative analysis of the role of women in child tragedy tragedies, In the myths of different nations

Shirin Taghvaei , Saeed Hamidian (Author in Charge), Farhad Tahmasebi

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The father-son battle is among the many myths, epics and legends. Among this group of stories, the father kills the son in battle. In the other group, the opposite is true. Considering that one of the ways to know the culture, thought, taste, emotion, aspirations, beliefs and beliefs of nations is to study myths and epics and apply them between different nations. In this article, we study and apply the tragedies of child murder in different epics. However, according to the scope of published research in this field, the purpose of this article is a comparative study of the role of women in child-killing tragedies in six epic stories.

METHODOLOGY: This article, with a comparative approach, examines the role of women in child-killing tragedies in the stories of Rostam and Sohrab Shahnameh, Irish Koholin, German Hildebrand, the tragedy of Ilya and Shahin Rossi, and Kuraoglu and Kordaoglu Turki.

FINDINGS: In these stories, different faces of women are portrayed, so that each woman has appeared and appeared in two active and passive images. But the role of women is different.

CONCLUSION: The presence of women in these stories has been in four types: mother, wife, warrior and ruler. In Ferdowsi"s Shahnameh, the woman has a faithful and devoted face, and this role is mostly repeated in the epic of Koholin and Kuraghlu, but in the story of Heracles, the situation is the opposite, as if a woman has little choice in Greek mythology.

Keyword
Epic , Comparative Literature , Myth , Shahnameh , Homicide

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