Symbolic Elements in Works of Ghollamhossain Saedi and Najib Mahfuz

There have been different causes in author's tendency to applying symbols in their works based on social, political and cultural factors. It seemed that nature of symbols in works of Ghollamhossain saedi and Najib Mahfuz was similar that may be related to same social, political and cultural contexts. These same symbols could be classified in clusters that included space, time, animals, character, myths, numbers, fictional creatures, natural elements and ordinarily objects. In this article, we, based on different kinds of symbols applied in Ghollamhossain saedi and Najib Mahfuz works, would answer that "whether same symbolic elements in Saedi and Mahfuz works have similar signified or not? And "where do these similar or different signi fied exist? In which symbolic elements exist? For this reason, we firstly introduce symbolism as a school of thought and then existing symbols would be analyzed with various subjects.