Authors : Ali Mamkhezri, Kamran Pashayi-Fakhri and Parvaneh Aadelzadeh
Abstract: Akhavan-Sales’s poetry is believed to seek racial, ethnic, religious and other sorts of discrimination. He portrays human as a free integrate agent who attempts to gain victory over the power of destiny. He attempts to revive the traditions of ancient Persia to achieve this purpose. He highlights attributes of justice and honesty while degrading cowardice and unfairly behavior and portrays the eternity of liberty. In order to avoid misunderstanding the concept of ‘nothingness’, he borrows terms from nihilistic view which is a form of absurd and he juxtaposes this interpretation of life with words that signify life in Zoroastrian philosophy to show that the lives of chivalrous people and heroes are inexhaustible; in contrast to nihilistic view, man is not abandoned but included under God’s plenty favor. In The Eight Labor, the end of Rostam’s life is not in accordance with nihilistic nothingness rather, it is a perspective in which life turns into non-life which according to Zoroastrian philosophy is a form of being.
Ali Mamkhezri, Kamran Pashayi-Fakhri and Parvaneh Aadelzadeh, 2016. Akhavan-Sales’s Reformist Approach in The Eighth Labor. The Social Sciences, 11: 3179-3186.