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A Comparative Study of
Torah’s Samson and Delilah and
Shahnameh’s Siavash and Soudabeh

Nasrin Mozaffari, Ph.D.
Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran

Sima Gharibey, M.A. of English Literature, Bushehr, Iran

Touba Shirkani, M.A. of Dramatic Literature, Bushehr, Iran

Abstract

Comparative literature helps the world's works of different nations become better recognized. Comparative literature is helpful in the national arena. It leads to familiarity with foreign literature, comparing it with one’s own literature and decreasing inadvertent prejudice on national language and literature. In addition to these, from among the other benefits of comparative literature, it is identifying the genuine issues from the non-genuine ones. Comparative literature is also capable of bringing two countries closer to each other due to their similarities. Thereby, nations come to know each other better and the mutual respect between them also increases. In this research, a comparative study has been applied to the stories of "Siavash and Soudabeh" from Shahnameh and "Samson and Delilah" from Torah. The definition and characteristics of epic and myth and their similarities and differences have also been stated.

Keywords: Epic, Biblical, Mythological, Soudabeh, Delilah, Siavash, Samson.

Introduction

"Myths are imaginary narratives about the nature, history and fate of the universe, the gods, humans and society" (Kavandish 17). Several great writes and critics have defined myth in their own way; one of which has been Northrope Frye. According to Frye "The myth is the easiest and the most common meaning, a story or a narrative in which usually a god or deity and divine beings are concerned. In this sense, myth is related to the primitive cultures or advanced courses of the ancient culture and when we call some of the effects of our age myths are have stabilized forms or vestiges of the past” (Frye 101). The influence of supernatural forces and human forces are explained in this type of story. The border between myth and history in mythology is so subjected to the transformation that at times a historical human from one time turns into a mythic creature of an abstract time. Of course, not every story can be regarded as myth; only those stories can be called the myth that can show us the creation or creation of things and the world. "There is a strong connection between myth and epic, and many epic characters have mythological model" (Mozaffari 25).

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Nasrin Mozaffari, Ph.D. (Corresponding author)
Assistant Professor of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
Department of General Courses
mozafare@yahoo.com

Sima Gharibey, M.A. of English Literature, Bushehr, Iran
sgharibey@gmail.com

Touba Shirkani, M.A. of Dramatic Literature, Bushehr, Iran
Tooba_shirkani@yahoo.co
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