The purpose of this study was to analysis of “rival wife” character in contemporary fiction literature. One of the features of contemporary literature is more attention to social issues and significant presence of woman in the field of poetry, prose and espe More
The purpose of this study was to analysis of “rival wife” character in contemporary fiction literature. One of the features of contemporary literature is more attention to social issues and significant presence of woman in the field of poetry, prose and especially fiction; the link between social issues and the language is evident; according to linguists; language is the mirror of thought and intellectual developments of society. Mahmoud Dowlat Abadi and Ali Mohammad Afghani are considered as the outstanding contemporary authors, projecting the social issues in their writings. One of these phenomena is developing the "rival wife" character."Shohare Ahoo Khanom" and "Kelidar"; both are the most influent contemporary novels that woman character in position of " rival wife " have the bold role in their plot .In this study, besides to analysis of these characters, we found that "Dowlatabadi" and "Afghani" for better creation and more realistic characters have benefited which fictional elements. The present research performed by descriptive-analytic method. The findings showed that both writers used direct method to develop the "rival wife" character well. Among indirect methods, Dolat Abadi relatively used ‘describing’ and Afghani applied ‘discussion’ method. Despite that both writers expressed problems and negative consequences of polygamy well, but they traced such an issue in male and biased view.
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