A Vivid and Multifaceted Female Figure in Saul Bellow’s Herzog

Saul Bellow, who has written numerous novels in his career, is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists twentieth century. In masterpiece Herzog, Bellow been criticized for a strong flavor “misogyny” view and portrayal female figures from perspective male angle. Here we take major figure, Madeleine, an example to refute accusation that Madeleine biasedly constructed devil-type woman show how successfully shapes her, with qualities retained, vivid rebellious striving be master her own fate.