A Comparative Study on the Elements of Play "Bejmalion" by Tofigh Alhakim and "Pigmalion" by Gholamhossein Saedi

One of the functions of the comparative literature is examining the analysis of relationships and similarities between language literature and different nations. Adoption is also one of the most important issues of comparative literature studies، in which the author interprets or recreates another art work. Tofigh Alhakim and Gholamhossein Saedi are two famous play writers in the field of Arabic and Farsi literature who have، respectively، written «Bejmalion» and «Pygmalion» plays adopted from Greek mythology of Pigmalion; however، the quantity and quality of the elements of their play are different. The purpose of this study is describing and analyzing these two works based on the elements of play، comparatively. The results showed that Tofigh Alhakim had a better performance in this regard. Integrating a few myths، entering secondary characters، creating new themes، comprehensive and meditative dialogue are considered as positive points of Pygmalion. But Saedi، in Pygmalion، not only did not add anything to the origin of the myth، but also was not successful in observing the elements of play. Not using the subgenre topics and new characters، which help to advance the main events of the play، not providing information and introduction of characters and events of the work، content-less and marginal dialogues، which have no effect on play، are defects of this work.