Siavash is one of the sad stories of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh. Sudabeh, the wife of Kaikavus and Siavash’s stepmother, is bewitched by Siavash’s beauty and instigates in his murder. Othello, as well, is a famous tragedy written by Shakespeare. Desdemona is a mollycoddle aristocrat who marries Othello even despite her father’s opposition. In the end, Desdemona is murdered by Othello who also subsequently commits suicide. The fame of the narrations and content similarities are amongst the reasons for the selection of these two works for comparison. Amongst the outstanding common points in both of these two tragedies, the forbidden love and negligence of age can be pointed out. Since the present study investigates both of these two stories from the perspective of Jung, it is by approaching Anima and Animus archetypes and the shadow of the other prominent points based on his theories that they can be better recognized. Ferdowsi and Shakespeare both try in their stories to showcase the filthy visage of treason and avarice to the readers and it is the following of the immoralities that causes the tragedy in both of these two masterpieces.
