ABOUT SYMBOLS REPRESENTING BEAUTY IN ARTISTIC TEXTS

The article defines the role of the concept of beauty in literary works and its reflec- tion in national-mental pictures of the world according to the principle of a systemic classification that evaluates beauty as universal and proves that the individual is a natural or acquired phenomenon for national thinking. In Uzbek and Russian-language works, comparisons, metaphors, proverbs, phrases reflecting the concept of beauty are divided into several thematic groups that reveal their similarities, features and universal aspects