2019 Volume 4 Issue 2 Supplementary
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THE MYTHICAL GREEK FEMALE ARCHETYPES IN THE NOVEL “AHOO KHANOM’S HUSBAND” BASED ON MS. SHINODA BOLEN’S PERSPECTIVES


MohtashamMOHAMMADI1*, Keihan SHAHRIYARI2
Abstract

Some of the best literary interpretations regarding the pioneering literary works are to be approached psychologically. Positing issues concerning the personal and collective unconscious and the archetypes in literature, psychological criticism deepens the literary criticism and broadens it to a mysterious extension. The effect of the artwork is derived of the collective unconscious manifestations and the mythical attitudes of the ethnicities; so, the artistic and literary works are the rendering of the collective unconscious and the presentation of the exemplary images to the ordinary people. The present study aims at the investigation of the main female characters in the novel “AhooKhanom’s Husband” based on psychological perspectives of Ms. Shinoda Bolen corresponding to the Greece’s goddesses as the mythical archetypes. The author tries showing that the female characters of the aforesaid novel are the demonstration of archetypes analyzable from psychological viewpoints based on the ancient role-modeling theories.


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