A Comparative Study of the Narrative and Content Structure of Two Folk Tales (Darabnameh and Bakhtiarnameh)

Folk tales are one of the literary genres that is derived from an ancient tradition in storytelling in which the storyteller uses various categories in order to entertain, character, spirits and aspirations of the Iranian people. And also depict their social history. The two popular and readable folk tales of Darabnameh, Tartousi and Bakhtiarnameh of Daghayeghi Marvzi, are this kind. Whereas long folk tales have a high research capacity; The present study is dedicated to examining and comparing the narrative and content structure of these two stories. In this research, which has been done analytically-descriptively and using library studies, after reviewing and analyzing the validity and content of the two works, it has been obtained that the narrative structure of Darabnameh is more robust and attractive than that of Bakhtiarnameh. Enjoys. Also, in terms of content, Darabnameh is the presence of the golden and ancient culture of Iran, but in Bakhtiarnameh, we are mostly dealing with Islamic culture.