Study and analysis of confrontational characters in mystical and theological allegories

Fictional allegory in literary terminology refers to an extended narrative that has multiple layers of other esoteric meanings behind the apparent meaning, that Each of these layers of meaning needs to be discovered, studied and recognized. Anything that is considered the center of gravity in this way of decoding and plays a major role in discovering and interpreting the mysteries and hidden images in the anecdotes is the analysis of one of the important elements of storytelling, namely the characterization in these anecdotes. The use of symbolic confrontational characters is one of the important types of these characters that play a significant role in the allegorical anecdotes of Persian literature to induce secondary meanings that arise in the context of cultural, religious, social, historical, etc. Investigating and analyzing the symbolic role of confrontational allegorical characters in the form of three types of single, double and triple confrontation and discovering the hidden relationships of these characters with other narrative elements and matching them throughout the story with the main theme of the story can lead to the discovery of secondary meanings. And new anecdotes for the audience. The results of this division show the special functions of this type of contrast for specific topics that the authors have assigned each of these contrasts to specific topics related to that contrast. This article tries to analyze the confrontational characters in mystical and theological allegories with a (descriptive-analytical) method.