TY - JOUR T1 - Akhavan-Sales’s Reformist Approach in The Eighth Labor AU - Pashayi-Fakhri, Kamran AU - Mamkhezri, Ali AU - Aadelzadeh, Parvaneh JO - The Social Sciences VL - 11 IS - 12 SP - 3179 EP - 3186 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2016.3179.3186 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.3179.3186 KW - The Eighth Labor KW -social reformist KW -chivalry KW -liberty KW -being KW -nihilism KW -non-life AB - Akhavan-Sales’s poetry is believed to seek racial, ethnic, religious and other sorts of discrimination. He portrays human as a free integrate agent who attempts to gain victory over the power of destiny. He attempts to revive the traditions of ancient Persia to achieve this purpose. He highlights attributes of justice and honesty while degrading cowardice and unfairly behavior and portrays the eternity of liberty. In order to avoid misunderstanding the concept of ‘nothingness’, he borrows terms from nihilistic view which is a form of absurd and he juxtaposes this interpretation of life with words that signify life in Zoroastrian philosophy to show that the lives of chivalrous people and heroes are inexhaustible; in contrast to nihilistic view, man is not abandoned but included under God’s plenty favor. In The Eight Labor, the end of Rostam’s life is not in accordance with nihilistic nothingness rather, it is a perspective in which life turns into non-life which according to Zoroastrian philosophy is a form of being. ER -