Investigating the role of women in Sadegh Hedayat's stories

One of the results of familiarity with the culture of other societies in the era of legitimacy in Iran is thereflection of the issue of women and their position and the presentation of her problems in literature.Sadegh Hedayat is one of the multifaceted figures in contemporary fiction that deals with women andreflects this fertile element of creation in his stories. Some consider him anti-feminist, but by thinkingabout his works and paying attention to psychological and educational issues. And socially, thecharacters in his stories may no longer introduce him as misogynistic. The insecure social and economicenvironment for women in the form of short stories has drawn attention to the critique of social laws.In the stories of Hedayat, the woman has a very important role and has values and sometimes countervaluesthat by reading her stories, we get the view of the woman that Hedayat has expressed it in anexpressive and thoughtful style. In Hedayat stories, we are confronted with a different female characterwho sometimes appears in traits such as silence, captivity, hatred, etc., and sometimes we find anunattainable woman in her stories who has protected herself from filth and is the subject of our attentionin this article. It is also the unattainable aspect of women that it can be said that Hedayat wants to conveythe value and high position of women to the reader of the story by her presence in her stories. We discussthis idea and our aim in this research, which is based on documentary and library methods, is to examinethe value and importance of women in guidance stories.

کلیدواژه ها:

Hedayat ، woman ، value ، anti-value ، familiarity