Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Hamid Taheri ¹
• Mahdiyeh Niyazmand ²

¹ Professor of the Department of Persian Language and Literature, Imam Khomeini International University

² Secretary of Education, Gilan

Abstract

As an arena for representing human behavior, stories can display characters whose sociological
analysis as a small sample of human society enriches our understanding of stories and literature and the possibility of interaction and dialogue between literature and other Provides knowledge areas. The theory of "hot stigma" is one of the important theories in the field of sociology of behavior, which analyzes the social status of people with physical, moral, spiritual and tribal defects. In this research, with the help of the mentioned theory in the analytical-descriptive method, the hot type of shame and the society's reactions to it are compared in two characters "Yosef" from the Iranian novel Symphony of the Dead and "Lieutenant Sonaga" from the Japanese short story Silkworm by Edogawa Ranpo was analyzed and analyzed. Investigations show that both characters suffer from severe physical stigma caused by the incident, are rejected by the people around them and subjected to various violence by family members by objectifying and dehumanizing them.And finally they experience the same fate as death. Also, despite the age, situational, linguistic and cultural differences between the two characters, the human society represented in these stories has had a similar performance in front of this heat, beyond the borders.

Keywords

• Symphony of the Dead
• Shame
• Irving Goffman
• Edogawa Ranpo
• Yusef
• Sunaga