The Controversy of Traditional and Modern Women in Iran and Syria (Case Study: The Novel "Aldawwama" and "I Turn Off the Lights")

Literary works are one of the most important tools for understanding the position of women in society. In the last decade, due to the change in the social, cultural and economic structure of societies and the rising level of women's awareness, women writers have critically expressed the social status and role of women and called for a fundamental change in people's attitudes and revision of patriarchal interpretations of literary texts. Have been. Zoya Pirzad and Qamar Kilani are writers who, with their knowledge of the situation of women in the society of their time, have written stories centered on women. The present article uses a descriptive-analytical method and relies on the American school of comparative literature to analyze and compare the personalities of traditional and modern women in the novels "aldawwama" by Qamar Kilani, a contemporary Syrian author, and "I turn off the lights." Zoya Pirzad pays. The works of these two contemporary writers are a manifestation of their realism and realism, which expresses many social events in both Syrian and Iranian societies. These two authors portray the character of traditional women with characteristics such as housekeeping, gender roles, passivity against the patriarchal system, and citizenship of traditional traditions. Violation of traditional traditions has been described.