Essays on Woman at Point Zero

Woman at Point Zero, written by Nawal Saadawi, displays the average woman confined in an primarily patriarchal society and the struggles that come from living every day in this world. Nawal Saadawi is not only the founder and president of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association...

Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero, tells the harsh story of a woman’s life, Firdaus, as she grows up in Cairo, Egypt. Firdaus’ environment and setting that she grows up in contributes to her oppression of religion, the disillusionment of men, and the struggles...

In many patriarchal societies, women find it difficult to unchain themselves from the control and power of men. Women are oppressed in order to serve men and prolong the existence of patriarchal command. This makes it difficult for women to be able to find release...

Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero portrays an unsympathetic, patriarchal society and focuses on a pain-stricken prostitute who escapes a childhood full of oppression to find power in prostitution. Sex is commonly used as an abbreviation to refer to sexual intercourse and sexuality refers...

Woman at Point Zero follows the first-person narrative of an Egyptian woman, Firdaus, as she tells the story of her life from early childhood to her execution for murder. During years of abuse and neglect as a child, Firdaus never felt the pleasure of choice...

‘Woman at Point Zero’ is a fascinating and revealing novel about the life of women in Islamic society. It is written by Nawal El Saadawi, an Egyptian writer who continues to be a champion for women’s rights in the Arab world. The novel gives a...

In the novel Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Sadaawi explores the genre of ‘creative non-fiction’ – a form which influences the reliability of the narration. An array of devices such as a frame narrative, the first-person narrative, as well as symbolic nouns and verbs,...

Darkness and light have long been literary symbols of contrasting forces that allow for complex descriptive writing, to create a setting, and to reflect emotion. Light commonly being representative of happiness, whereas darkness may be used to represent the unknown and despair. In ‘Woman at...