A Comparative Study of the Question of Honor in Sadegh Chubak’s Tangsir and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird

Sima Gharibey

Abstract


This comparative study endeavors to analyze the question of honor and the means through which it is gained or restored in two novels chosen from two apparently distant territories and nations ; i.e. , Sadegh Chubak’s Tangsir and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This study analyzes the process through which the protagonists of both novels find themselves entangled in the controversial web of maintaining honor which has been either lost or on the verge of being lost with unbearable consequences. Both novels are contextualized and the embedded images and symbols are analyzed in this paper.


Keywords


Question of Honor; Comparative Literature; Sadegh Chubak; Tangsir; Harper Lee; To Kill a Mocking Bird

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