FIRDAUS’ REJECTIONS TOWARD TRADITIONAL VALUES ATTACHED TO ARABIAN WOMAN IN NAWAL EL SAADAWI’S WOMAN AT POINT ZERO

Historiana, Natalia Happy (2004) FIRDAUS’ REJECTIONS TOWARD TRADITIONAL VALUES ATTACHED TO ARABIAN WOMAN IN NAWAL EL SAADAWI’S WOMAN AT POINT ZERO. Other thesis, PROGDI FAKULTAS SASTRA.

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Abstract

he novel Woman at Point Zero has made Nawal El Saadawi an internationally- renowned writer, psychiatrist, and women’s health activist. In spite of arousing controversy, Woman at Point Zero was her best known novel in English, and was widely read as an example of Arab feminist literature in both the Arab and the West. Woman at Point Zero presents in the life story of a woman who is waiting for an execution in the Qanatir prison in Egypt because she has killed her pimp. This paper deals with the women’s problems in the patriarchal society, and the novel Woman at Point Zero is the object of the study. The way the positions of woman in the patriarchal society are presented and encountered, and the way woman of Arabian society, who portrayed by Firdaus rejects the patriarchal values discussed in this paper. Woman at Point Zero presents the position of the woman of patriarchal society in the Arabia Country where a woman has to face the man-made traditional values which are attached to them and views her as a second-class citizen. As a woman, Firdaus experiences genital circumcision, limited access to education, sexual abused from the men (her uncle, husband, friend, pimp, lover; the policeman, and the Prince of Arabia), physical abused from the men who are supposed to protect her as a woman who is weak. Dramatically, she cannot do anything although she wants to fight the system. She can only run away into the street, the safest place she knows. The last, she has to pay a high price, imprisoned for killing one of the men who made the rules. She prefers to die rather than to send an appeal to the president to be pardoned.

Item Type:	Thesis (Other)
Subjects:	800 Literature > 820 English and Old English literatures
Divisions:	Faculty of Language and Art > Department of English Literature
Depositing User:	Mrs. Frederika Kristin
Date Deposited:	28 Sep 2015 01:52
Last Modified:	28 Sep 2015 01:52
URI:	http://repository.unika.ac.id/id/eprint/3773

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