List of Articles Welcome to Hades

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  1 - The Process of Individuation in ‘Welcome to Hades’ by Belgheys Soleimani
  Mehdi Khademi Koulaei
  Unlike Freud who was totally preoccupied with ‘causality’, Jung focused on‘eventuality’ as an important principle in the development of human psyche. In other words, besides the past and the present, he considered future as an influential factor More

  Unlike Freud who was totally preoccupied with ‘causality’, Jung focused on‘eventuality’ as an important principle in the development of human psyche. In other words, besides the past and the present, he considered future as an influential factor in the growth and development of human mind and personality. While not losing sight of personal conscious and unconscious, Jung paid special attention to collective unconscious and archetyps. In the backdrop of such an enlightened attitude didhe introduce individuation as one of the pivotal issues in psychology. He regarded the coordination between conscious and unconscious and inclination of the conscious ‘ego’ towards constructive interaction with the unconscious elements of the psyche, i.e. the Anima, the Animus, the shadow, the persona, the old wise man and the self as a pre-condition for the fundamental unity. Psychological analysis of the novel involves the interplay between psychology and literature and the analysis of a story from such a perspective provides the opportunity to observe the invisible aspects of the story from a wider perspective. Since ‘Welcome to Hades’ has the potentials for such an analysis, the present author has examined the process of individuation in its most prominent characters using a descriptive-analytical approach. The results of the study revealed that the simultaneity of the prevalence of certain beliefs with wartime situations along with the internal and external invasions created conditions which prevented the process of individuation for some people (Rudabeh, the main character of the story) from bearing fruits. Some other people like Ehsan experiencedregeneracy by going to war and reacheing perfection and integrity in a different way which was compatible with the critical wartime conditions. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Welcome toHades and the Myth of Persephone: A Comparative Analysis Based on Theory of Intertextuality
  Afsane Hasan zade dastjerdi
  Sometimes, the writers of literary texts utilize some characters from the other texts, stories and even the whole plot. One of main recourses of stories is myths that have been reflected in rites, beliefs and fables in different forms. The Greek myth of Persephone and h More

  Sometimes, the writers of literary texts utilize some characters from the other texts, stories and even the whole plot. One of main recourses of stories is myths that have been reflected in rites, beliefs and fables in different forms. The Greek myth of Persephone and her journey to the kingdom of Hades, the god of underworld, a myth about death and resurrection, is one of them. The main character of the novel, Welcome to Hades, by Belgheis Soleimani, travels like Persephone and after experiencing the events finally reaches the underworld. By using analytic method the present article attempt to explore the role and method of presence and recreation of the myth of Persephone in the novel, Welcome to Hades, with respect to Julia Kristeva’s theory of intertextuality and the ideas of Bakhtin about the logic of dialogue of texts and intertextual relationship in literary texts. The results of the research show that the myths of Persephone and Hades are a pretext for the novel Welcome to Hades and have influenced the structure and characters of the novel. By this way the hidden dimensions of the novel can be understood better. Manuscript profile