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چکیده مقاله

Ancient nations consciously had hard and continuous attempts to have dynamic lives in the first days of their national life. These attempts which sometimes took place in terms of great wars led to narratives which were represented in the form of myth and legend. In these narrations, a speech, a discourse, a thought, and a belief were rendered as the main motif or dominant element which strongly influenced other motifs. In mythological narrations or Iranian heroic stories, permanent war between goodness (light) and badness (dark) was the main motif. These were the main motifs in national epics of Iran, such as Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, and unified the varieties of narrations and gave them a unified system. Therefore, a coherent narration which rendered the war between goodness and badness showed its highest beauty and aesthetic in Ferdowsi’s epic, and could find a permanent and firm place in people mind and heart. Although some part of the permanent presence of epical literature generally depends on the whole great culture of the nation, it is to be considered that the great spirit, and brilliant style and language of Ferdowsi have a strong undeniable influence on this permanent presence during thousand years after Ferdowsi.