English abstract
This study aims to investigate the image of woman in the narrative works of the
Lebanese writer Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) and the theatrical works of the
Azerbaijani writer Huseyn Javid (1882-1941). The two writers followed a similar
path in facilitating their goals. Each of them defended woman's lost rights in the
family and society, and the factors for preserving the strong relationship between
man and woman. In this regard, the study chose the stories of "Marta Al-Baniah",
"Warda Al-Hani", "Khalil Al-Kafir" and the novel "The Broken Wings" by Gibran
Khalil Gibran, and the plays "The Mother", "Maral" and "Afat" by Huseyn Javid.
The study relies on the American School's approach to comparative literature,
using some historical, social, political, and cultural data and facts. This study
undertakes a parallel between incidents and phenomena to extract similarities and
points of matching on the one hand and to define aspects of difference and contrast
on the other hand between the images of woman mentioned in the works of these
two writers, as each of them lived in two different environments in terms of social,
political and cultural aspects in the same period. The two writers presented the
image of woman according to the archetypes that represent the models which are
hidden in all human consciousness; explaining the archetypal images of woman in
all her manifestations that woman can be. The study shows the personal position
of the two writers and their visions in various subjects that coincide with the
romantic way, and it also searches for the method used by each of the writers in
the artistic structure of the studied works.
