Double Contrasts in Folk Stories

Folk stories have come from the ventricle of populace، because they are comprehensive mirror of habits، manners and tempers of populace. Then we could barely observe living culture of people. One of the ways for reading texts (among them folk texts) is the discovery of hidden reciprocities in the texts. Extracting reciprocities make the texts، hidden layers accessible. According to Drida، this oppositeness is in hierarchy and step – by- step form. In other words، one part is considered superior، and is not only “natural and apparent” but also totally “cultural”. Therefore، we could attain important points about supportive ideology of text through getting the inner reciprocities of any text and distinction of the superior part. In this essay، the inner texts of two folk and famous stories (Shangool and Mangool and Bewildered Nightingale) are contrastively considered on the base of the most famous and detailed narrations. This consideration indicates that folk stories are truthful to the inner contrasts، and recognizing each part of the contrasts leads to better comprehension of the opposite part positions and traits (for example، woman’s position against that of man or mother against stepmother، etc.). In these stories، the narrator mobilizes all story parts to provide the addressee with his desired result، and stimulate cultural and cogitative beliefs to make it evident and logical