Analysis of “Dalile Mohtaleh va Ali Zaibaq” fairy tale from One Thousand and One Nights, based on Greimas’ role model

Najmeh Dari,PH.D.

Hussein Qorbani.

Abstract



Fairy and folk tales manifest the ancient cultures and traditions of human communities. A group of researchers, upon reliance on the written texts, remaining from ancient legendary tales, have studied these fairy and folk tales. For instance, Vladimir Propp studied and discovered the structure of Russian folk tales and enumerated a number of particular functions for these tales. Meanwhile, Algirades Julien Greimas made use of the “actor” concept, summarizing Propp’s theory, and presenting a role model in regard to narration’s actors. This research explores “Dalile Mohtaleh va Ali Zaibaq” fairy tale with reliance upon Greimas’ role model. This fairy tale maintains a high capacity for analysis of deeds due to diversity of its characters and the influential functions of each one of them. Based on this study, it was found that the repetitive role models of other stories in different deeds’ realms are also observed in this fairy tale. However, what distinguishes this fairy tale is its religious dialog.