Analysis of Rana-va-Ziba’s story According to Vladimir Propp Method

Stories and legends of literature are part of the cultural heritage of each nation, which determines the traditional and cultural values of every society. First step of the analysis of stories and anecdotes, must be the study of constituent elements of them, then discovery of the relationships between these elements and the process of the story. This type of study and analysis is useful for each story of the classical, narrative, and fiction literature and covers all societies. In the current study, which was conducted using descriptive and content analysis methods, the lyrical and romantic story of Rana va Ziba written by Mirza Barkhurdar Farahi has been studied according to Vladimir Propp's morphological theory, that classified into; stages of the early situation, creating problems, trick, combat, come back, and wedding; Moreover, while analyzing the thirty-one functions that is considered by Propp in this story, we figured it out that the most frequent performance in this story are the supportive element, the decision that protagonist of the story made, and also the defiance .this story contains three misfortunes and calamity, and eliminating of them, that base on those the three comebacks and transfers happen to the main heroes of the story.