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The Relationship Between Madness and Terror of Death in the Stories Buried Alive (Zendeh beh Gur) and Three Drops of Blood (Seh Qatreh Khun)
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Sinâ Bashiri *1  , Qodratullâh Tâheri2 |
1- Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran , sina_bashiri70@yahoo.com
2- Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran |
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Life in the modern world is accompanied by anxiety, meaninglessness, and despair, which ultimately culminates in the inescapable fate of death – a theme that has become a central focus in modern art and literature. Due to his pessimistic worldview and his fascination with the concept of death, Hedāyat made the existential impact of death on human life the subject of many of his stories. In Hedāyat’s works, most of the characters suffer from a kind of isolation, pessimism, nihilism, and neurosis, which in many cases lead to their death or suicide. In this article, using a descriptive-analytical method, the fundamental significance of the concepts of "madness" and "terror of death" and the function of madness in confronting the terror of death in Hedāyat’s stories, Buried Alive (Zendeh beh Gur) and Three Drops of Blood (Seh Qatreh Khun), were analyzed. The findings showed that in Hedāyat’s stories, by rendering modern life futile and meaningless and by emptying individuals’ minds, madness plays with death and the terror arising from it, and liberates the characters’ minds from existential anxiety and concerns. By renouncing life before death and making an ironic use of suicide, madness ultimately frees the individuals from the terror of death. |
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| Keywords: Hedāyat, Buried Alive (Zendeh beh Gur), Three Drops of Blood (Seh Qatreh Khun), Madness, Death, Terror of Death, Suicide |
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Type of Study: Research |
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