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- Title
Comparative Analysis of Theme and Structure in Molière's Play The Miser and Akhundzadeh's The Tale of the Miserly Man.
- Authors
Rezaei, Mahnaz
- Abstract
Theater, as one of the literary types, has created a link between literature and performing arts. There have been two types of theater, comedy and tragedy. In the past, the type of tragedy was superior to the type of comedy. In the seventeenth century in France, with the appearance of Molière, comedy flourished and a revolution took place in the classical theater. In Iran, playwriting does not have much history. But its traditional and religious forms have always existed. In this article, we have done a comparative study of two comedy plays, Molière's The Miser and Akhundzadeh's The Tale of the Miserly Man. In the two studied works, miserliness is shown as one of the biggest moral pests that not only affects family relationships, but also involves social relationships. In this article, we have benefited from the theories of Michel Viegnes in the field of theater and his classification of types of humor and the theories of Ménandre, the ancient Greek playwright, in the field of classification of the characters of classical plays, and by examining and comparing the content, character, we have discussed the structure of two works to see how and in what cases Akhundzadeh imitated Molière and what was his purpose in writing this play.
- Subjects
AKHUNDZADEH, Mirza Fathali; MISER, The (Play : Moliere); PLAYWRITING; WIT &; humor; PERSONALITY; 17TH century (Literary period); 19TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Literature, 2023, Vol 15, Issue 28, p1
- ISSN
2008-6512
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.22103/JCL.2023.20194.3526