Eyes, a symbol for character’s personalities, which Firdaus relies on the eyes to make connections with others and judge their character. In the novel, Woman at Point Zero, written by Nawal El Saadawi in 1975, eyes represents a symbol of the story. Ferdaus, the main character of the story, has a gift from god, which she could have seen personality of a character through the eyes. Firdaus ' speaks with these eyes and only these eyes that sees all. El Saadawi uses the motif of the eyes to show the human connection that Firdaus establishes with other characters and how these eyes helps her to establish a relationship with them.
Ferdaus starts out having a happy childhood, “All I can remember are two rings of intense white around two circles of …show more content…
Eyes represents as a sign of love, change in relationship and hatred, in Ferdaus’ story on almost every page. Firdaus relies on people’s eyes to judge the character of the person and because of the lack of control and mis-judgment that she has over her life eventually earns her execution. “because the world was full of lies, she had to pay the price.” …show more content…
During the interactive oral, we discussed about “Woman at Point Zero” by Nawal El Saadawi published in 1975, which we argue about whether Ferdaus’ mother’s eyes, representation of person’s personality, considers as a sign of comfort and love or fear and death. After interactive oral, I understand now that she states her mother’s eyes as being “two rings of intense white around two circles of intense black”(18), which she feels comfort through these eyes and makes a connection with these eyes throughout the story when she describes other people’s eyes and on the other hand, if a person she meets doesn’t have the same eyes as her mother, they scares her and these kinds of eyes represents ferdaus’ fear and hatred of society. It is hard to believe and understand why some people are placed in such terrible situations, like Firdaus, but it is important to try and see the culture before judging. Political issues, the concept of Egypt being highly religious and embodies the political unrest in Egypt; resistant to authority, helped me to further my knowledge on understanding how all men, during that time period, that Ferdaus’ meets throughout her life were nice to her at the beginning, but then they changed and when FGM takes her power, men continue to ask her about pleasure, which basically they just tried to mock her. I found it interesting to read how El
Ferdaus starts out having a happy childhood, “All I can remember are two rings of intense white around two circles of …show more content…
Eyes represents as a sign of love, change in relationship and hatred, in Ferdaus’ story on almost every page. Firdaus relies on people’s eyes to judge the character of the person and because of the lack of control and mis-judgment that she has over her life eventually earns her execution. “because the world was full of lies, she had to pay the price.” …show more content…
During the interactive oral, we discussed about “Woman at Point Zero” by Nawal El Saadawi published in 1975, which we argue about whether Ferdaus’ mother’s eyes, representation of person’s personality, considers as a sign of comfort and love or fear and death. After interactive oral, I understand now that she states her mother’s eyes as being “two rings of intense white around two circles of intense black”(18), which she feels comfort through these eyes and makes a connection with these eyes throughout the story when she describes other people’s eyes and on the other hand, if a person she meets doesn’t have the same eyes as her mother, they scares her and these kinds of eyes represents ferdaus’ fear and hatred of society. It is hard to believe and understand why some people are placed in such terrible situations, like Firdaus, but it is important to try and see the culture before judging. Political issues, the concept of Egypt being highly religious and embodies the political unrest in Egypt; resistant to authority, helped me to further my knowledge on understanding how all men, during that time period, that Ferdaus’ meets throughout her life were nice to her at the beginning, but then they changed and when FGM takes her power, men continue to ask her about pleasure, which basically they just tried to mock her. I found it interesting to read how El