Structure of plots in common Farsi tales

Common tales can be grouped based on their themes, contents, frameworks, and sources. This article studies common Farsi tales, based on their plots, while classifying the famous common tales in six main groups, which are tales with linear, circular, tree-like, chain, and combined plots. This classification helps us to maintain narrative diversity in the plots of these tales. This research takes place based on the study of the narrative structure of forty Farsi prose common tales. Based on the outcomes of this article, the majority of short and semi-long common tales maintain linear plots. The romantic tales maintain a circular structure. The tree-like plot belongs to originally Indian tales. Long stories maintain a chain plot, while versified children’s stories have a step-by-step structure.