Struggle for Recognition: The Tragedies of "Rostam and Sohrāb" and "Oedipus the King"
Subject Areas : Mytho
1 - دانشجوی دکتری زبان و ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه پیام نور
Keywords: recognition, tragedy, Aristotle, "Rostam and Sohrāb", Oedipus the King,
Abstract :
The tragedies of "Rostam and Sohrāb" and "Oedipus the King" have certain points in common. There is a "struggle for recognition" in both. According to the legend of Shāhnāmeh, after years without any real knowledge of one another, Rostam and Sohrāb (father and son) face each other in battlefield, on the opposing sides. Rostam does not recognize his own son, and Sohrāb does not know his father. Likewise, in "Oedipus the King", on the road to Thebes, Oedipus meets Laius, his true father. Unaware of each other's identities, they quarrel over whose chariot has right-of-way. Oedipus's pride leads him to murder Laius.
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