Representation of Female personality in Novels before and after Iranian Islamic Revolution Case study: Suvashun and I turned the lamps off novels

Changing is a crucial issue in sociology. Nowadays women have important role in changing world. It can be said that change appear in the literature context of society and for this reason, the study of literature and society and especially text representations in social sciences have a historical record. In this research, by qualitative method and mimesis technique, we are trying to answer this question that how women personality in interaction with their life world, represented in novels before and after revolution. For this purpose, two novels of “Suvashun” and “I turn the lamps off” have elected as a sample. The results show that Suvashun novel represents psychiatric feminist perspective belongs to the second wave of feminist theories in which family and its internal relations represented as the main factor leading to unequal condition between women and men. But I turn the lamps off, illustrates cultural values of the Islamic revolution that highlighted family and separating of a feminine and masculine role as a preserver of discipline and integration of family and society.