نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Re-reading the works of writers who, owing to a particular political ideology and creed, have taken steps to employ the capacities of fictional literature for individual and social awareness, and who have been style-setting and trend-creating figures in the field of allegorical and political fiction, can be highly valuable and illuminating for understanding the social taste of Iranian intellectual classes during a specific historical period and for identifying the reasons behind the intellectual appeal of and public reception toward the works of those writers. Samad Behrangi is one of those important and prominent writers. An examination of his views through his outstanding short stories and a critical reading of Behrangi's thought through the lens of psychological criticism can reveal another layer of his perspectives. This essay, centered on William Glasser's Choice Theory—which emphasizes the quality of satisfying the five basic human needs, freedom of choice, perception of reality, and acceptance of responsibility—has endeavored, using a descriptive-analytical method, to re-read the fictional characters of The Little Black Fish and Olduz and the Crows—works that possess a socio-political theme ostensibly for child and adolescent audiences and inwardly for adults—within the context of reality-based psychology and individual freedom, examining the extent of their responsibility and capacity for choice and the manner of their efforts toward the realization or satisfaction of basic needs. The results of the research indicate that the agency of the main characters in the short stories The Little Black Fish and Olduz and the Crows, based on Glasser's Choice Theory, is directed toward the pursuit of freedom and the satisfaction of the need for power and achievement. The need for freedom is a fundamental and transcendental need, yet it is the lost need of a society preoccupied with fulfilling primary needs such as "the need for survival," "the need for fun," and "the need for love and belonging"; and this is the fundamental issue underlying Samad Behrangi's socio-political creed for constructing an Iranian utopia and delineating a desirable world.
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