Feminism In Zahra By Al-Shaykh's Zahk

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Throughout century, man has being also the center of all activities. Man are related to active, violence, and more active than woman, The society has made it this way and still has the concentration of dominance and superiority of man all over the world. This injustice on women is so getting crucial to a point where many women activists are trying to stop this bad treatment on woman in the world. In the story of Zahra by Al- Shaykh, Hanan use this story to illustrate the problems of war and consequences female are still enduring until this day. The concept of violence and war illustrate the power of masculinity over feminist due to their weaknesses, unequal treatments and their view as objects in the society.

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The obstacle that Zahra is facing is the result of how her behavior and how her psyche become society’s into the destruction of war. In her early year at the beginning of the story, brutal father rejection of her because of her acne and this war a symbolic for her inner scar. She is victims of her own father being a hater .Within this Context Ann Adam commented that: "Zahra 's abject and acne-filled face not only makes visible the emotional scars this upbringing has had on the sensitive young girl, but also literalizes the ever increasing gender conflict…between men and women for the control and regulation of female bodies” to show the abuse of the father on her own daughter because of his masculinity. He has more power on her because she respect her as a father which he takes advantages not by treating her as a puppet. This is also one of the symbol of man’s dominance in the world on the society because of all actions leading to cruelty toward females as a symbol of object. The author used this quote to help the audience understand this theme when we see “He would scold me severely whenever he caught me playing with my pimples….My father would go raving mad every time he noticed my face and its problems .He would nag my mother sarcastically : “ That will be the day when Zahra married. What a day of joy for her and her pock-marked face! (24-5)”. The author is trying to convey to us about the fear, dominance the father has in the family. It looks like anything Zahra must do must be check and be accepted, notify by the father before she goes on further. His cruelty toward her own daughter has made her to believe the tension of male on her is unwanted. She understood the description of feminism in the patriarchal way in the society as herself being rejected, unloved and discriminated against by its own people such as his father. In other word not only the

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