A Study on the Archetype in the Young Adult Novels (The Fairies of Liasend Maris)

In Persian literature, the archetypical criticism is considered as a modern one. It is founded on the psychoanalytical criticism based on the opinions of the Swiss psychologist, Karl Gustave Young. The main purpose of the present research is to find out and define the implications for proving the archetypes existing in the young adult’s novel “The fairies of Liasend Maris” by Tahereh Eibod. Furthermore, the functions of archetype are illustrated in the secondary level of the text. In this story, many of the symbolic concepts including voyage centrality, the criticality of numbers three and seven, receiving invisible blessings, Mandala and the archetype of ‘’child’’ in archetypical situations, the archetypes are basically regarded as the inheritable capacities and concepts which have been existed in our mass unconsciousness before we become aware of it. They are conventional for all humans regardless of their race and culture. The myths and fairy tales have similar and main motifs in the literature of the world and Iran which are remarked as archetypes. Notably, the archetypical criticism is also called the mythological criticism. The archetypes are sometimes reveals in different natural symbols to reach consciousness and they are reflected in the artists ‘works. The analysis of archetypes in literary texts is actually removing the apparent layer of each text so as to reach the deep structure and the second and invisible layer of that work. Affected by her unconsciousness, Tahereh Eibod has consciously and evidently applied the archetypical symbols in the fairies of Liasend Maris novel. That is why, the novel has not been artificial.