Available online at www.worldscientificnews.com ( Received 20 November 2017; Accepted 10 December 2017; Date of Publication 17 December 2017 ) WSN 91 (2018) 1-11 EISSN 2392-2192 A Comparative Study of Sons and Lovers and Symphony of the Dead Roohollah Roozbeh Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Vali-e-Ars University of Rafsanjan, 22 Bahman Square, Rafsanjan, Iran E-mail address: r.roozbeh@vru.ac.ir ABSTRACT This article compares D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers with Abbas Maroufi’s Symphony of the Dead. These two novels have striking similarities; they deal with the tragedy of two growing men whose mothers aroused in them, to full consciousness, the desires normally re-served for darling wives; their hatred of the father and what the father stands for in these two novels is also conspicuous. what binds these two novels, then, is psychological criticism. Keywords: Comparative, Sons and Lovers, Symphony of the Dead, psychological criticism 1. INTRODUCTION Literary works with similar themes is not a new phenomenon in literature. In all literatures of the world analogous themes have ensued simultaneously without the writers being aware of each other in their different culture. It is possible that two authors may have had similar love experience in a novel or in a poem or in a drama. Many of the concepts are common to all cultures, such as greed condemnation, piracy condemnation, hypocrisy, and hatred. It is highly likely that culturally different writers have created vengeful and greedy characters that are very similar to each other. Aside from these general concepts, there are certain concepts that can be shared.