Analysis of the Functions and Applications of the Setting of Stories: The Case of Shahzadeh Ehtejab

Document Type : Research Article

Author

• Mehrdad Akbari Gandomani

Associate Professor in Persian Language and Literature, Arak University, Arak, Iran

10.22067/jls.2024.85580.1531

Abstract

This study explored the multifaceted role of setting in Golshiri’s novel Shahzadeh Ehtejab. The main purpose was to show the implicit and explicit impacts of setting on different aspects of story, including meaning making, audience immersion, making space, and foregrounding common cultural aspects. Taking the purpose into account, the study tried to see the impacts of the setting on the structure and meaning of the novel Shahzadeh Ehtejab? Taking a descriptive-analytical method, the analysis of semantic, thematic, and structural elements of the novel were analyzed. The analysis of these elements of the story showed that setting in the modern stories is considered a fundamental and necessary element. It showed how the past and present lives of characters are inevitably intertwined with their surrounding environments, so that any small changes in the setting impacts the identity of characters, shapes their desires and motivations, directs their choices in a certain way, and helps determining their destiny.

Keywords

• Setting
• Narrative Structure
• Shahzadeh Ehtejab

Main Subjects

• Literary Studies

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