Investigation, analysis and allegorical reading of the main characters of Suvashoon novel by Simin Daneshvar

Allegory is used as one of the most important literary tools to express various lyrical, didactic, epic, mystical and ... concepts. This level of flexibility has led to the persistence of the role of allegory in the field of literature, so that we see its use in the field of contemporary Persian fiction. In the meantime, Simin Daneshvar's novel Suvashoon has mystical and allegorical layers that have added to its semantic complexities. In this research, with reference to library sources and descriptive-analytical method, an attempt has been made to study and explore the primary and secondary intentions of Simin Daneshvar in the novel Suvashoon to answer the question that the characters Zari, Yousef, Sir Jenet Zinger and Sohrab Malek, What are allegories of people and what concepts were created to explain them? The results of the research show that in this novel, the golden character is an allegory of Simin Daneshvar, the female gender and the country of Iran. Yusuf's character is an allegory of the intellectual class, especially Jalal Al-Ahmad, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Imam Hussein and Siavash. Also, the character of Sir Jenet Zinger is an allegory of colonialism and the character of Sohrab Malek is an allegory of confrontation with patriarchal society. The use of Persian and Semitic myths to cultivate allegories has been prominent.