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In continuation of the research proposed by Vladimir Propp in morphology towards the study of narrative texts such as stories, novels and plays, the famous French theorist Algirdas Lucien Grimas came with his theory of the factor model. Greimas's theory is distinguished from its predecessors in its comprehensiveness, as it is not limited to the human being, but rather paralyzes every effective force influencing the narrative, regardless of whether it is a human being, an idea, or an inanimate thing. This theory consists of six factors: the subject, the object, the sender, the addressee, the opponent, and the helper. These factors embody the characters and events that appear and occur in the narrative from beginning to end. This study, through the descriptive-analytical approach and relying on Greimas’s factor model theory, aims to address the topics section of the Book of Lessons by the Egyptian writer Mustafa Lutfi Al-Manfaluti. Among the most important results that I obtained, it can be noted that: All the stories contained in this section of the book include the six factors, with a difference in the type of active forces. Some of these active forces are represented by humans, and some of them are an idea through which the writer wants to criticize the social situation or correct some wrong concepts. that prevail in societies. Also, the relationship between the subject and the object was not always desire, but in some cases it was separation, as in the story “The Punishment.

Keywords: Arabic Narratology, Greimas, Factorial Model, Manfaluti, Lessons, Topics Section

     

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