Investigating the binary opposition between love and power in Nezami’s Khosrow and

One of the topics of interest to structuralists is paying attention to binary opposition. They know the foundation of existence and its cognition as the realization of these oppositions . Most of artworks are based on contrast and opposition; Bad versus good, heaven versus earth, youth versus aging, existence versus non-existence, etc. These two poles have never existed independently and are based on the opposition of two poles. This article intends to answer the question of how the two oppositions of power and love are formed in the story of "Khosrow and Shirin" by using descriptive-analytical method and also considering the combination of structuralists’ views. The results of the research show that each of the codes of power and love in the story of Khosrow and Shirin seeks their appropriate words on the axis of syntagmatic. The story begins with the balance of the codes of power and its signs, but by the formation of the codes of love, each of these codes attempts to strengthen its system of signs and rejects the codes of opposition.