Analyzing the Behaviors of Nezami's Characters Khosrow and Shirin Based on Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Subject Areas : شاهنامه
Simin Arami
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(Persian Language and Literature Department, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran)
Ali Dehghan
2
(Persian Language and Literature Department, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran)
Zhyla Serati
3
(Persian Language and Literature Department, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran)
Hosein Hajizadeh
4
(Persian Language and Literature Department, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran)
Keywords: moral development, Khosrow and Shirin, Kohlberg, Nezami,
Abstract :
Nezami's Khosrow and Shirin is not composed to teach ethics; however, the ethics in the behavior of the characters of the lyrical stories of this work has unique features. morality finds a unique feature of characters' behaviors in his poems. Because in the dilemma of relationships and sometimes beyond the rein of love, ethics and morality get stuck in unconventional situation. Nizami’s works have already been studied in terms of the ethics and morality. However, in this study, the ethical behavior of the characters of the poetic cycle and their morality is to be analyzed according to a scientific theory. Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development is one of the psychological and cognitive approaches to the ethics and morality and various studies have been done base upon this theory. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the behaviors of the characters of Khosrow and Shirin according to the moral stages of Lawrence Kohlberg. This approach has not already been used in Panj Ganj. According to the research results, regarding the behavior of characters, six group or six main ethical components were identified. Each of these components include various behaviors. Each behavior is due to specific motivation or logic which is also illustrated in Kohlberg’s theory
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