چکیده مقاله
Human being has enjoyed listening to the stories and from past has made stories and listened to them The history of story can be as long as the history of human life Story as a form of a literature is enjoyable for people and God conveys his message by stories because it is seen in the Holy Books Each story should have a plot which includes sequence of events But events alone can not make a story For developing each story characters are required to serve the purpose of story teller As characters are considerably significant, Holy Books use them to express the stories Female characters along with male characters in The New Testament indicate their roles as the protagonists or antagonists However minor their role sometimes might seem they are required to conclude the message of Lord Understanding a character is more difficult than understanding the story itself When we explore characters and characterization theories of literary criticism enter our study It is based on the text of The New Testament and the theories related to characters and characterization will be used whenever required Women are present in New Testament as characters and appear in different parts of the holy book They mostly are the characters who under the influence of the words of Jesus come to be believers, by seeing the miracles or by their need they seek for solving their problems This study attempts to show how the female characters are presented in The New Testament and if their development is revealed and whether these female characters are categorized as flat or round types
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نویسندگان
Maryam Ebadi Asayesh
Department of English Language, Marand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marand, Iran
شیوه ارجاع
Ebadi Asayesh, Maryam,1401,Study on E.M. Forester's Theories of Characterization on Female Charactersin the New Testament,Twelfth International Conference on the Study of Language, Literature, Culture and History
ارائهشده در
مجموعه مقالات دوازدهمین کنفرانس بین المللی مطالعات زبان،ادبیات، فرهنگ و تاریخ16 تیر 1401