Content Analysis of Proverbs (Based on Persian Proverbs and English Proverbs)
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Vahideh Norouzzadeh Chegini, Centre of Excellence in Wisdom Literature and Mystical Texts Studies, Isfahan, Iran.
Proverbs are part of the daily lives of people. Proverbs make among the people and the lives of people Fryer and they are inextricably linked with them. These short sentences were born of the simple people’s knowledge in past that arrives to people in future and looks to them the fathers’ hopes and dreams, sorrow, joy, love and hate, faith and honesty and acquaints illusions and superstitions. Peoples and nations of the world, in various fields, are the same aspects that we see many examples in oral literature proverbs of all nations. For this reason, the purpose of this article is showing the continuity and adaptability in proverbs in both English and Persian language. We compared 100 proverbs in both languages and found the similarities and differences. Proverbs reflect people’s thinking and we will show that the root of proverbs is one. People in the world have beliefs, fears, hopes and common events in their lives that can find common oral literature. These examples of proverbs show it clearly which we will detail below.
Culture, Folklore, Proverb, Persian Language, English Language
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