The symbol of bird and Sparrow in Muhammad al Maghut 's"Humpbacked Bird" theater

The Bird symbol has a special place in the literature of various nations. This symbol is also manifested in the mirror of contemporary Arabic literature. Arab poets and writers use symbol as a means of criticize of disorganized situations of society for various reasons.This paper aims to explain the symbol concept and the factors that lead the works of contemporary literature to be symbolic, and decodes the one of Muhammad al Maghut by using descriptive analyses method. "Humpbacked Bird" ; as the name implies; is purely symbolic work that involves the political, social and cultural themes. One of the most important symbols that used in this drama , is sparrow, which is more frequent than other symbols. This symbol is present from beginning to end of drama and often it has different meanings and sometimes opposite cases and the end , overcome the positive means of bird to negative means of that. That is one of important results of this research.