A Study On the Relationship Between Self and other At the Early Stage of Modernism in Iran, In the play Ja far Khan az farang bargashteh by Hassan Mohaghdam

In this article, the question is about in what forms an Iranian character encounter - Consciously or unconsciously- with “self” and “other”, in the play “ Ja’far Khan az farang bargashteh” by “Hassan Mohaghdam”? The “self” and “other” are metaphors which refer to the most important subject of modern Iranian literature. This relation involves a relationship. The relationship which creates a space so that social and communicative forms could appear and be reproduced as social characters as well as their different kinds of encounters – “self” and the “other”. Here, the focus is on concepts such as language and outfit as well as the metaphorical and semiotic system of “self” and “other”. This system will be examined within the interaction of characters and constitute the above discourse. Here by discourse, I mean a certain attitude and point of view in any historical period by which the Iranian “self” tends to experience something and it is the “other’s” experience constituted in the play. In this article, I attempt to show how the characters in the play as a kind of subjectivity and “self”, stand against subjectivity of “other”.