The Reflection of Love and The Evolution in the Stories of Simin Daneshvar

Daneshvar is one of the writers who has also spoken about love and has given a fictional form to the traditional and modern views on love in Iranian society. The purpose of this study is to investigate the subject of love and the evolution in the stories of this author, based on a descriptive-analytical method. What is love, its functions, evolution and types of love, physical, social, mystical and mixed love, are among the issues studied in this study. The results show that Daneshvar, is first influenced by modern attitudes, considers love as one of the most enjoyable instinctual forces; but then, she is influenced by traditional attitudes, the subject of love finds a sacred and extraterrestrial state in her stories that connects human beings with God, nature, and other human beings. At the beginning, Daneshvar speaks more about the manifestations of earthly love, such as physical and social love, each of which determines the construction of individual, family, and ultimately human community within a specific geographical area; but then she raises the issue of mystical love and the various criticisms and attitudes about it, and finally, contrary to the philosophical and mystical attitudes that consider the earthly love as a bridge to mystical love, in the scholarly attitude, she finds love, a mixed state and a combination of all kinds of them, in which, in her opinion, life will end in this kind of love. This connection between mixed love and life shows the author's positive attitude towards the end of life, and that this kind of love is the answer to the question of how human lives in the modern era.