Analysis of Dramatic Factors of the Story “Gila-Mard”

Abstract

As a subset of continuity, the scene is taken into consideration in evaluation of narrative time of a work. The main point regarding scene is how the playwright puts an end to mediation of narrative tools while reporting his story, so that the events of story take place in front of the audience’s eyes in such a way that, the audience feels no barriers between himself and the events, and finds himself involved in and as the direct observer of the events. Since the story “Gila-Mard” is always introduced as a dramatic work, the present study tries to consider dramatic factors of this story. Most theorists regard direct reports of “dialog” as the only dramatic tool of the story; thus, this study illustrates how Bozorg Alavi was able to create such a dramatic story through a comprehensive description of the story and attending the details, offering animated descriptions of nature, employing progressive verb tenses in descriptions, and blurring the existence of narrator within the story. To do this, dramatic factors of a story were explained and considered within the story “Gila-Mard”.

Keywords

• narratology
• tense
• scene
• gila-mard