The Analysis of Structural Patterns of Hamid Amjad's Plays

Hamid Amjad is a contemporary playwright، who has his own style. By writing plays and taking them to the stage since 1986، he has made his presence in this field highly precious and continual. After a short prelude and brief introduction of Hamid Amjad، the paper briefly discusses the concept of structure and structuralism and then analyzes some of the works by Amjad by relying on their narrative structure. Each play was investigated separately and the conclusion was that Amjad''s plays follow the Claude Bremond pattern; of the 11 plays that were studied، nine of them ended in failure and two ended in triumph. In the remaining part، situations were named and similarities in structures were revealed. The result was that most plays concerned follow three patterns.