“Evil Woman” in the Ancient Egyptian Literature

Abstract

This article, by using feminist criticism and archetypical criticism, mains to analyze the evil woman images in the ancient Egyptian literature like Great Mothers of terror who tries to capture right and cause deaths, the enchanter who is very crazy and fascinating and the wife who betrays his husband to understand the complexity. Also this thesis reveals the spiritual and cultural meaning of the evil woman images. Lastly, the paper sums up the reasons from Anima, the good and evil in the traditional human nature, male-dominated society and the male author’s viewpoint on female.