The Women's Image In Mahfauz's Novels,

Mahfauz pays much attention to females in his works, and he had ever expressed his concern for females in an interview directly. In his works, he also depicts the tragic experiences of the Egyptian females in contemporary society. While as a male writer, his attitude towards females still has not rid of the prejudice of the traditional male writers, and he still treats females as the attributes of males. In his fictions, it does not reflect the independent characters of females; instead, it is just some kind of males' expectation to females.The focus of his novel is on depicting a main street or one of a few streets or the life of several families. In the family, the man is nuclear; and the woman should meet the male's will. The woman has no right to say words, to criticize his husband's fault. Or else, she will be scolded and cursed by his husband, what's the worse, she may be re-offed. Mahfauz follows such awareness that man is the leader in a family. In his novels, women are mostly compliant, and they will be punished more or less once they resist men. In the family they lose words, let alone in the community. Many women are just prisoners in the family prisons, and family is the only space for them to act, while there is no opportunity for them to participate social activities. Society is the stage of men, and women can only be silent lambs.Love is beautiful, which is the physical desire to the opposite sex , but in his novels, women lose the right to enjoy love. In his fiction, women have no real love, and they only live a family life. Marriage is to complete religious obligations without love factors.Under his writing, for males, females are considered as tools to enjoy entertainment and to succeed generations. No male thinks of females as the independent singles, and they never realize the value of females, neither do females. Females obey males' orders in males' world; they get their necessary living substances at the cost of sex.