Pillars of Salt, A Woman of Five Seasons and A Balcony Over the Fakihani :: Pillars Salt Seasons Balcony Fakihani Papers

Pillars of Salt, A Woman of Five Seasons and A Balcony over the Fakihanimissing works citedMaha, sister, my life is like candy-floss fluffy and full from the outside, vacuous like this damned hospital room from the inside. And they called the candy-floss filles-curls. It was like my life. A girls life. A fluffy lie for half a piaster. Ya-la-la. (Faqir, 19)To galore(postnominal) eyes, the womens liberation movement in the Middle East is nada more than a mere faade. The solidification of womens rights in typography means very little when actually put into play, women still hatch to be trampled on in all walks of life, behind closed doors and tinted windows. This is specially true of the three novelsPillars of Salt, A Woman of Five Seasons and A Balcony over the Fakihani. In these stories, women make earned little or nothing of their perfection given rights and continue to remain silent behind the false justification and ordinance of the law. True, the circumstances surround ing the equality of women have improved compared to what they in one case were, but even the most simple of things which Western women take for allow are thorns in the sides of Middle Eastern women. The authors of these books do their best to come upon the injustices put upon women that the public rarely sees, even in the light of modernity. It is in these novels that we see how little the womens liberation movement has done for these rattling women, these women made of flesh and blood who are still largely unnoticeable in the grand scheme of the universe.Rape as a type of SocietyOne of the most obvious disguises of inequality is the rape of Nasra in the first novel Pillars of Salt. Rape is very much illegal and stock-still it happens and happens openly. Mahas mind races when Nasra tells her that she has been raped, we can see how the society view women who have lost their virginity through rape, My friend had lost her virginity, her honor, her life. She was nothing now. No d urable a virgin, absolutely nothing. A piece of flesh. A cheap whore. (Faqir, 11) This sums up what society thinks of a woman who has dishonored herself and it seems that once this has happened, there is no hope or chance of one ever redeeming herself. This is the mass of Nasra and the fate of all women.