Abstract

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This research paper is pertained to explain the similarities and differences in socio-cultural dissertation about The Odyssey by two writers of different times: Greek writer Homer and Pakistani dramatist Usman Ali. This research inquires social and cultural aspects in both, the epic and the play. To contemplate socio-cultural study, the researcher draws on Faiz Ahmad Faiz's concept of Culture and Identity (2004). Faiz's concept is used to explicate the derived aspects of culture: material culture and non-material culture. The panoramas of culture have been dissertated to interpret the archaic and human history, being propped up by four standards. (1) Celebrating cultures of Greece and Pakistan (2) Rituals (3) War and (4) Religious Extremism. Social aspects of the epic and the play are figured according to the derived prototype regarding socio-political and religio-historical aspects. In the comparative analysis of the epic and the play, the researcher essays to analyse both the texts under the finally neologized aspects of culture: material culture and non-material culture. These two aspects of culture are discussed in the perspective of culture theory conferred by Faiz Ahmad Faiz.