A Comparison of Woman's Position in "Vays & Ramin" and "Bijan & Manijeh" Poems from Matriarchal Viewpoint

Finding a way into the woman's world and investigating on her personality and temperament has always attracted the attention of scientists, philosophers and scholars in each era. Understanding woman's role and position in the human's complementary process requires continuous investigations and researches to clarify the ambiguities and problems that have led to prejudices about her and have introduced her as "Eternally Guilty".In the ancient Iran, we see wise and smart women that not only do not get angry with contempt, inattention and contemn, but also they have shown such a reaction that has shocked all political, cultural, legal and social structures governing the society. Vays is one of those women. The goal of this study is to present her real personality and determination by which she could resist against the destiny that had been determined for her by others.Efforts are made in this paper to address woman's position in the ancient Iran by considering two poems, namely "Vays & Ramin" by "Fakhredin Asad Gorgani" and "Bijan & Manijeh" by "Ferdowsi" and to investigate the main characters of the poems, i.e., "Vays" and "Manijeh" in order to compare woman's role from matriarchal viewpoint by considering the occurrence time of the two stories which goes back to Ashkanid era.Research method is of library type. The subjects were collected by referring to the resources and were described through analysis and reasoning.