The Narrative Structure of the Story of Pire Changhi Based on Labov and Waletzky's Model

In storytelling, the events of the story are driven by a cause and effect relationship, and go to a certain point. By studying the narrative structure of a work, its concepts and deep-structure can be identified. William Labov and Joshua Waletzky, theorists of narrative structure, believe that oral narratives have their own principles and criteria; they propose a structure for oral narratives. According to the Labov, a narrative consists of six principal parts: an abstract, an orientation, the complicating action, the result or resolution of the action, a final coda to close the story, the evaluation. The present article tries to examine the story of Pire Changi (the Harpist) in Masnavi of Manavi based on the narrative model of Labov and Waletzky. The results of the research show that Masnavi, despite being an old book, can be adapted to modern theories (including theory of Labov and Waletzky), and the evaluation, as the most important part of this theory, exists in free (independent) narrative clauses.