Comparative study on narrative structure of functions in two major battles in "Darya-ye asmar" and "Shah-nama", according to the Propp's structural theory

Propp in the study on hundred Russian folk-tales, noted that characters’ function is the smallest structural narration’s unit and formulated, by analyzing functions, the structure of fiction’s plot and the narrative actions’ system. Therefore, he remarked statements about basic structure of fairy-tales and their classification. According to Propp’s theory, current research, first, evaluate efficiency of his pattern in battles narration’s structural explanation in "Darya-ye asmar" between Suryaprabha and Shrutasharman, related to sovereignty of Vidyadharas, and battles in "Shah-nama", related to the revenge of Siavash’s martyrdom and Key-Xosrow’s utopian kingdom. then it compares analyzed structure of these battles’ narration. After analyzing the stories, seems that pattern of Propp’s theory presents an adequate explanation of the narrative structure of these stories’ functions, which accompanied with suggestions for more appropriate theory’s usage. This pattern reveals the homology of basic structure and, furthermore, shows the similarity of some internal relations between the functions in narration of mentioned battles in the books above. Also, in some cases, there are dissimilarities in some details of these narrations, that could be regard as the India and Iran’s cultural diversities, which roots in the formation of narration’s background, reflect in diagram of the functions.