Investigating the role of artistic images in teaching the concept of death to adolescents, according to the model of Gilbert Doran (Case study of the novel Beyond the Dead Sea)

Gilbert Durand French thinker considers the roots of human fantasies to be archetypes, the main origin of which is man's fear of the passing of time and his attempt to control it. Accordingly, he divides imaginary symbols into two main regimes, day and night. The daily regime represents the people's fear of death and the night's regime moderator of this fear. This approach played an important role in identifying hidden motives that subconsciously impose themselves on the artist's mind. The novel "Beyond the Sea of the Dead" by Mirabutalebi is a work whose concern is the issue of death and how it is presented to the adolescent audience. In this work, an attempt has been made to confront the audience with appropriate faces of death by using imaginary images. The present article, seeks to examine the effect of the images of the mentioned novel in modulating the adolescent audience's fear of death. The results show that the author has made the most of the daily regime of fantasies, with Animal symbol, darkness and falling being the most reflected, respectively. The contrasts in these images represent death and life and the fear of death and the proper confrontation with this fear.