![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During her stay with Bayoumi, Firdaus narrates that “His hand clasped around my arm. By describing the male characters’ hands, Firdaus, in retelling her life story throughout the novel, manages to offer the reader a depiction of men as being manipulative dictators in her Egyptian society. While Firdaus’ perception of hands gives insight into the intentions, values, and desires of characters and of her own, Firdaus’ leads the reader to see that women are subdued while men dominate using her depictions of hands.Įl Saadawi attributes a forceful, authoritarian quality to all the men that the main character Firdaus meets. Harlow arrives at a sound conclusion through proofs such as Nawal El Saadawi’s novel, but specifically with Women at Point Zero, Harlow’s argument would be better proven if she had examined the motif of hands formed throughout the main character’s, Firdaus’, narration. Barbara Harlow claims that the Third World needs “new secular forms of social organization” (Harlow 506). The problem of human rights in the Third World is essentially influenced by the social systems set in place to govern the regional cultures. ![]()
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