Fiction Literature
Karam Nayebpour; Naghmeh Varghaiyan
Abstract
Emotion is one of the shared properties between fictional characters and real people. The manner and extent of representation of emotion in narrative affects the extent to which readers relate to the storyworld and determines their interpretation of the narrative meaning. In realist fiction, emotions ...
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Emotion is one of the shared properties between fictional characters and real people. The manner and extent of representation of emotion in narrative affects the extent to which readers relate to the storyworld and determines their interpretation of the narrative meaning. In realist fiction, emotions plays a decisive role in narrative characterization. Fariba Vafi’s After the End is one of the examples. The plot in Vafi’s narrative is primarily based on the role of a sense of intimacy or empathy in how friendships between the main characters begin and end. By using a retrospective narrative method, Vafi’s novel narrates the process of the narrator’s introspection in relation to the reasons for the breakdown of her relationship with an old friend. Thus, the narration of the first person singular in Vafi’s novel can be considered as the narrator’s account of the evolution of her feelings and attitudes in regard to a past relationship. Drawing on the interdisciplinary approach of the emotion and narrative, which is a sub-branch of postclassical narratology, this paper examines the role of emotion, especially the role of intimacy or empathy in After the End. The essay has reached the conclusion that the narrative plot in Vafi’s novel is based on representation of human-like emotions such as intimacy and/or empathy. Such a familiar feature expands the reader’s feeling of empathy with the two central characters and also increases the narrative impact on the reader by facilitating his closer connection with the represented events and situations.
Fiction Literature
hasan zolfagari; maryam moghaddami
Abstract
Emotional divorce is among the social crises that insidiously threaten the modern family stability. Emotional poverty in marital relationship interferes with the role of the family in providing the family health, and consequently the social health. A few fictional works observe, alongside representing ...
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Emotional divorce is among the social crises that insidiously threaten the modern family stability. Emotional poverty in marital relationship interferes with the role of the family in providing the family health, and consequently the social health. A few fictional works observe, alongside representing the social events, the emotional divorce. The present paper studies the two family-oriented base on emotional divorce and Literary, Linguistic and Sociological characteristics following an interpretative research method and combining the issues extracted from them. These fictional works including My Bird and The Dream of Tibet (by Fariba Vafi), which have been selected due to their family-oriented nature, their popularity, and the numerous awards they have won. Emotional divorce has been analyzed at the literary level according to the story elements (Subject, Tem, Character, Dialogue, Atmosphere, Conflict). At the linguistic level has been studied and at Sociological level has been identified and studied causes and consequences of emotional divorce. The studies show that the low level of verbal and emotional relationship, Lack of empathy, feeling lonely, Husband's Failure in Family Commitments are the main factor in causing emotional divorce and the concealment, adaptation, leaving home, Inclination to the opposite sex are the female characters' primary strategies for dealing with emotional divorce.
