Comparison of the characters, Ajax and Bahram in the tragedy of Sophocles and Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh

Abstract People kill themselves when they feel that life isn’t worth continuing. When the motivation to death is stronger than the instinct of self preservation, man thinks that there is no way in the front him and that he’s surrounded by despair from all sides. In this case, the values of all the things that were this man’s main values in his life, lose their spiritual and material costs. Today, depression and mental disorders, addiction, failure, or failure in love, work and personality disorders, is the main reasons of suicide. There are also people that suicide to protest the situation. But in Europe, especially in Greek and Roman literature, the number of suicides is very high which incentives are often completely different from today. In the collection of Persian literature, the number of people who have committed suicide is even less than the number of a hand’s fingers. This paper is a comparison between the death of two heroes, and two heroism deaths: Ajax, the Greek commander in a play of Sophocles, on the one hand, and on the other hand Bahram, Goor’e son in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh