Characterization and Psychological Analysis of Characters in Siavash

Characterization as one of the important elements in telling story exists in Shahnameh’s stories proportionate to the subject and according to the principles and techniques of modern storytelling. Effective processing of each character causes a deeper relationship between addressee and story، until the characters come out of the legendary and epic worlds and they get embodied in live and tangible images related to the real world toward the addressee. Thus the story of Siavash is a suitable area for presenting Ferdowi’s talent in the ways of storytelling. The present study attempts to analyze Ferdowsi’s capacity in characterization، the ways of introducing characters and characters'' actions and reactions. It also investigates characters’ responses in different situations which show us the deep perception of story. From psychoanalysis of characters we understand the introverted psyche of Siavash، paranoia of Kavoos and psychopathy of Garsivars. We can also mention the use of different types of defense mechanism such as mechanism of displacement by Rostam and Siavash، mechanism of regression and aggression by Garsivars and mechanism of compensation and projection by Soodabeh.