An Introduction to Imaginative Trips In Arabic, Persian and Western Literature

Abstract

In every time, literature has accompanied with the society and its developments. So the oldest literal works have been showed their conditions of societies. For this reason, the creators of these works chose different methods to explain their hopes and desires and one of the most important methods was imaginative trip. We know that imagination is as old as history, so imaginative trips have much precedence. In these trips, the creators of works , sometimes, travel to another world and then compare the land society with ideal society. They were going to another world by the wings of imagination and wanted to reform their society. Many contents of these trips were similar to the events which had happened in the world. This article has been written according to this hypothesis that imaginative trips have common contents in Arabic, Persian and Western literature, So it has explained the imaginative trips in three cultures which mentioned above. For achievement of this goal, the writer has used the method of content analysis in this research, and at the end, it became distinct that the condition of society had effective effects on these trips and also common ancient sources influenced the creators of imaginative trips.