| Abstrakt: |
Journey has always occupied a unique position in world literature. The current paper investigates the concept of journey in children and adult’s narrative literature. Samad Behrangi’s “the Little Black Fish” concerns the challenges faced by the main character while passing through different stages of the mystical journey. The present paper aims at investigating the comparability of the stages of the Little Black Fish’s journey with that of the birds in Resalat Al-Toyur by Ahmad Ghazali. In the two works, the stages are not distinctively named. In Attar’s Mantegh Al-Tair, as an adaptation of Ghazali’s work, the seven stages of the mystical journey includes: quest, love, wisdom, independence, monotheism, amazement, indigence, and death. This framework is employed in comparing the aforementioned stages. The findings revealed that the stages are remarkably similar to each other. The major reason for the existence of such an incredible similarity was originated in the fact that they belong to mystical literature and cover the same theme of “Mystical Journey”. Last but not least, the similarity may also have its origins in the unconscious impact of the classic writers (i.e., Attar, Ahmad Ghazali) on the contemporary author (i.e., Samad Behrangi), as well as the human soul commonly shared by all human beings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
