Paradigm of Frustrated Intellectual in Akbar Radi's " Oful (Decay)" and Saadallah Wannous "Yawm Min Zamanina (A Day of our Time): A Comparative Study

This article aims to investigate the sample of the frustrated intellectual in two plays of Oful (Decay) and A Day of our Time by Akbar Radi and Saadallah Wannous respectively. The method of this comparative study is based on the American Approach. It was found that both authors were particularly fascinated to the subject of the intellectual. Oful tells the story of an engineer who decided to fight against the feudal system, but he was defeated. A Day of Our Time is the story of a teacher who tried to oppose the prostitution in the school but ended up with the realization that his beloved wife was also involved in prostitution. Accordingly, they both found suicide a perfect solution to get rid of their problems. Both of these dramas represent the same subject: there is a woman standing behind the two champions, both of the plays depict a very dark atmosphere; Radi tries to express the intellectual's problems and Wannous depicts the post-modern world in which the man wanders off.