Analyzing Women's Place in the Short Stories of Yusuf Idris

Abstract

Discussion of women and their rights was started in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, following the 1919 Revolution. The issue of women, who are emotionally the most beautiful and the most subtle element of the society, among all other matters relating to human and society, has always been associated with increasing complexity and has given a certain charm to literature. Youssef Idris is a great Egyptian novelist. Much of his writing is done in a fictional world with the three elements of God, sex and domination. The concept of “Woman” is close to reality in his novels, and it reveals a relatively realistic picture of her face. This study aims to analyze the picture and place of women in Yusuf Idris’s story by an analytical-descriptive method. The study focuses on the fact that the women are useful for Yusuf Idris innovation and, in most cases; they are accused or make mistakes in the stories. In other words, their face is quite negatively projected. Sometimes, they are portrayed by the face of the devil, which is unfaithful and villainous, atrocious and cruel, petty or contemptible or pitiable. However, by scrutinizing some of the stories, we find Idris believed that the cause of chaotic situations was the problems of the Egyptian society. This group of women is imaged by Idris as a doctor for community diseases. Certainly, there are learned and cultured women in Egyptian society as well.