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This paper, by conducting a comparative psychoanalytic study, pursues to emphasize that slavery has a deeper meaning than the meaning it has in post-colonialism by analyzing the characters of The Tempest, the last play written by William Shakespeare and The Blind Owl, the last novella written by the Iranian writer Sadegh Hedayat. It begins with an argument that how each character in the selected works, specially the protagonist, serves as a slave at different levels of life. Hence, the focus is to show how these characters are slaves to their own inner thoughts and beliefs. Revenge, as an inner force, is the driving motive in the two depicted protagonists' actions. However, they adopt different attitudes by the end of each story: Prospero, the protagonist of The Tempest, decides to forgive, but the narrator of The Blind Owl takes his revenge at last. We can see how these different attitudes of the two characters lead to the different outcomes in their real life. Inner suffering, and in turn, inner slavery, reside more in a person who persists in his belief, on the other hand, a dynamic character achieves more peace at the end of the story. |
