Fateme
Moradian Fard Juneghani
University
of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
Abstract
The story of
Bontsha the silent is a story written by I. L. Peretz, a Jewish writer. Bontsha
is silent all his lifetime under various disasters and after passing away, he
enters the heaven in which the authorities hold a court for him and finally is
accorded the highest honors of heaven, while he still keeps silent and admits
only some bread and butter. Bontsha seems to represent an oppressed group who
keeps a perpetual silence under the governing society’s cruelty and even given
an opportunity would not be able to take advantage of it. A defending angle
defends Bontsha’s privileged rights in heaven which represents a group of
people who justify every possible phenomenon in the society to their own
benefit such as a dominant government or a dogmatic church. A prosecutor in
trial session protests against the sentence who manifests a limited number of
people in any society tending to cry the truth and the reality which are neither
welcomed by the dominant group nor are given liberty or opportunity to declare
their demands. This paper tends to analyze this story profoundly from different
angles and evaluates symbols, ironies, fantasy, characterization, viewpoints,
conflicts, emotions, plot and theme applied in the story.
Keywords:
Bontsha the silent, I.L.Peretz, story analysis, Jewish stories.
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