The Study of Rostam's character based on the story of " Rostam and Esfandyar in Shâhnâmeh and theory of " self - actualization by Abraham Maslow

Always intellectuals and thinkers of different schools have provided elements to illustrate the image of the perfect man. Abraham Maslow one of the founders of humanistic psychology، presents some properties for his desired perfect human which interprets him as a self-actualized person that according to his view، it is true about most of the successful individuals. Rostam is one of the most successful and prosperous personages in shahnameh and the main elements of specialto the self-actualized individuals of Maslow can be retrieved in their thoughts،Behavior andhisspeech. In this article، at the beginning، we introduce Abraham Maslow and the self-actualization theory and its elements and then in the main section of the article، we describe and analyze the character of Rostam (relying on the story of Rostam and Esfandyar) according to the introduced patterns. In fact، this article introduces Rostam as an Iranian pattern for this theory which was documented by some examples and evidence from the story of Rostam and Esfandyar. In fact، it seems thatin thedesign of thisstory which is the last serious presence of Rustam on stage، Ferdowsi has asked to show Rostam superiority in Body، spirit and character.