Eschatology and the Manifestation of its Relationship with Archetypal Literary Criticism in Persian Literature

Some of the traditional and archetypal features present in a text serve to form a link between the text and other texts and establish a relationship between the mind and society and help us to extend the conceptual world of the text by extending its literary images. Though it is true that myths, symbols and archetypes, together with other discourse elements, establish a relationship between the text and the reader, they are independent textual features that uncover the history of human life on earth. The systematic nature of myths and archetypal symbols sometimes remind us of the devils and infernal world and at other times remind us of gods and results in man’s thinking of heaven and the heavenly world. Owing to the fact that in the course of history archetypes have been mixed with man’s experiences, there have always been relationships between archetypes and man’s life on earth.By focusing on the issue of meaning in archetypal criticism, an attempt is made in the present study to enter the domain of the relationship between this kind of literary criticism and eschatology and by studying three groups of imagers in archetypal systems discover the relationship between eschatology and this kind of literary criticis.