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Abstract
This study discusses the image of women within the context of the feminist theory with special reference to Dickens’ Hard Times and Great Expectations and Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley and Palace Walk. It discusses the socio-cultural and literary conditions of women in Victorian London and in the early twentieth century Cairo. It also reflects the similarities and dissimilarities between the two cultures reflected in fictionalizing the image of woman in the novels in question.
According to A Handbook to Literature the image is;
One of the distinctive elements of the language of art, the means by which experience in its richness and emotional complexity is communicated, the image is a portion of the essence of the meaning of the literary work, never a mere decoration (Holman, C. Hugh and Harman William 150).