Women At Point Zero Analysis

Women at Point Zero is a novel written by Nawal El Saasawi, which was published in 1975 in Arabic then translated in 1983, this novel accounts the first person view of Firdaus’s, who is locked up in a Cairo prison cell, where she reveals how the beginning of her life and how she ended up on death row. The purpose of the author’s work is to engage the audience into Firdaus’s life and relationships she makes while living in a patriarchal society.
The scene that set the purpose and impacted me, was when Firdaus stated, “Sometimes I could not distinguish which one of them was my father. He resembled them so closely that it was difficult to tell. So one day I asked my mother about him. How was it she had given birth to me without a father? First