Proceedings of The 6th International Academic Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences
Year: 2021
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.33422/6th.iachss.2021.11.25
Suffering Of Sibling in the Ancient Literature
Nooshin Mohajerin
ABSTRACT:
When human is born sees some eyes watching inside self, trying to take care with affection and love. Inside of parents, the most closed kindred and consanguinity, is brother and sister; that life finds meaning with them. The unconscious love between them, that has its roots in consanguinity; having the same parents, growing up together and being matured in the same family, while it has carried the unwanted suffering; the suffer of loving and being loved. According to study literary texts throughout the centuries and beyond geography, the sibling relationship seems to be either white or black. Surprisingly, in these texts there is not a moderate trend, neither in this relationship seems a sweet suffering as to love, forgiveness and sacrifice, nor the bitter suffering that triggers suffer. Moreover, to be suffered that eventually ends in grudge, jealousy, bloodshed and revenge. This subject has an old long background in the arena of literature. The most ancient stories involving the above is about Abel and Cain appears in Bereshit, the first of the 54 Torah portions. According to the Book of Genesis, Joseph’s story tells about the action of the father-Jacob- loving his youngest son more than the others that the growing jealousy and finally the grudge of brothers to the small son, leading to murder of the brother. The relationship of sibling demonstrates a world of difference. The Iliad, the Homer’s major work, shows the contrast between morality and immorality in sibling relations. There are two kinds of siblings in King Lear; a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in 1606. According to Shahnameh there are some stories about sibling primarily has a common message. In all stories the roll of parents, especially father, is very important resulting to aggravate jealousy and grudge.
keywords: sibling, Jealousy, grudge, love, parents.