Consequently, her refusal to live and her fearlessness of death when sentenced to die by the Egyptian court of law symbolize her resolve to achieve freedom and dignity not in her phallocentric society but in death. Firdaus kills Marzouk, the pimp, to free herself and achieve total liberation.

Using Frantz Fanon’s theory of violence, the article discusses Firdaus’ use of women’s liberative violence to extricate themselves from men’s captivity.

The focus is on class oppression, male hegemony, and deception. It applies Nawal El Saadawi’s strand of feminism, particularly the theory’s main tenet of the links among patriarchy, class, and religion, to examine the systems responsible for women’s oppression.

This paper analyzes Firdaus’ life of captivity by the forces of oppression right from childhood to womanhood and eventually to prison awaiting execution for committing murder. Firdaus’ dichotomy of the male and female gender into criminals and prostitutes respectively is the focus of the discussion in this article. Firdaus, the woman protagonist in the novel, after a careful observation of her own life and the status of women in her patriarchal society, postulates that men are criminals and women are prostitutes. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.This article examines the male-female gender dichotomy in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero. This delusion is the new prison that people inhabit today, north and south, east and west.We inhabit the age of the technology of false consciousness, the technology of hiding truths behind amiable humanistic slogans that may change from one era to another.Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. The most dangerous shackles are the invisible ones, because they deceive people into believing they are free. For the technology of oppression and might without justice has become more advanced, and the fetters imposed on mind and body have become invisible. Now, although I am out of prison, I continue to live inside a prison of another sort, one without steel bars. “Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child.

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