Structural analysis of the stories "Zan-e-Ziyadi" and "Al-Zawar" based on the structuralism theory of Todorov and Bermon

Advances in contemporary literary criticism led to the creation of the school of structuralism inspired by the theories of Ferdinand de Saussure. Nowadays, structural analysis is one of the most important methods of short story analysis. The feature of this method is that the researcher does not study the various phenomena of his science separately and independently of each other, but he always tries to study each phenomenon in relation to the other phenomena which it is a part of it. Structuralism is a theory that recognizes, studies phenomena based on the rules and patterns that underlie their basic structure. The structuralism movement, with its achievements from the formalists, gave a deep originality to the narratology. The term narratology was first used by Tzutan Todorov. In this article, two short stories "Zan-e-Ziyadi" written by Jalal Al-Ahmad and "Al-Zawar" by Yusef Idris have been selected and each of them has been analyzed based on the structuralism theories of Todorov and Bermon and shows that the narrative structure of these two anecdotes are consistent with theories of these two literary critics.