Typological Study of “Shaghaad Story” from Shahname based on Propp’s Theory

This paper seeks to analyze and consider the consistency of the “Shaghaad” story in “Shahname” based on Morphology theory of "Veladmier Propp". For this purpose, the theoretical foundation of Propp’s structuralist and morphology school of thought is under consideration. Authenticity to the text, neglecting cultural, social and historical roots and paying attention to the reciprocal relations among text unit are considered. Items like four main rules in characters, constant and variable elements of the story, septet actions of characters, functions and different types of movements in the story are studied.The writer studied the Shaghaad story based on Propp’s findings and demonstrated the subjects by drawing tables and forms. It is shown that the story is adapted to Propp’s functions and the metathesis cases of functions and inconsistencies are specified. This query concludes that according to Propp’s pattern, this story has two movements there are instances that the story is not consistent with Propp’s pattern and there is a new function called destiny admittance in Iranian stories which is not mentioned in Propp’s pattern. There exists the idea of dualism in Shaghaad stories’ functions. Paying attention to the number three are seen in the form of three events in the fulfillment of the objectives of the characters.