The Role of Interlocutor in Forming the Structure of Masnavi

Masnavi has several unique characteristics among all literary works of the world. One of them is, to create extemporization and present it to the addressee. In fact, the fundamental reason of creation of Masnavi is the presence and demands of addressee. In this article, the researcher attempts to reveal how the addressee plays a role in the creation of Masnavi in its current form. The structure of Masnavi is based on several anecdotes or fables within each other. Presenting some anecdotes, tales, verses and verbosity and brevity of them and also focusing on a particular part of the anecdote or even existence of many pornographic verses and anecdotes and the general forms of the whole work, are the consequences of the presence of addressee at the time of the creation of Masnavi. In fact, Molavi and the addressee together form the structure of Masnavi.