semantic employment of symbols in the theater of "zowar al-lail" by ali oqla orsan

the western symbolism that characterized in france at the late nineteenth century invaded the arabic modern literature and had great effect on development of its forms and genres especially on the theater. actors arose in arab world take principles of symbolism in their productions among them ali oqla orsan who is truly master of writing, presenting and criticism of theater in syria. his symbolic theaters include “al-sheikh wa al-tariq”, “zowar al-lail” and “tahawolat azef al-nai”. in this research we try to analyze symbolic aspects of “zowar al-lail”. this theater tells us about psychological conflict that suffers ahmad, hero of theater, and drags him to suicide for he was committed bad works to his beloved (hend). she loved him and trusted in him but he leaved her alone before her achy fate. from this viewpoint we extracted the symbols and analyzed modality of its inspiration from its title and thought and then its characters, time and place. at the end and by reliance on technical method we conclude that orsan in this theater and in its semantic employment, try to talk about human psychological conflict that arises with his sins during his life.