Ready Reference Treatise: Woman at Point Zero

By Raja Sharma

“Woman at Point Zero” by Nawal El Saadawi was first published in Arabic language in 1975. The novel’s story is based on the author’s encounter with a female prisoner in Qanatir Prison.

Firdaus happens to be a murderess. The novel presents her first-person account. She agrees to tell her life story to the author, before her execution.

She describes the poverty and neglect she had to face during her childhood. She remembers being circumcised by her mother.

Ready Reference Treatise: Woman at Point Zero
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Plot Overview
Chapter Three: Major Characters
Chapter Four: Complete Summary
Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Nov 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311935601

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: Woman at Point Zero

Raja Sharma

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Chapter One: Introduction

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi was first published in Arabic language in 1975. The novel’s story is based on the author’s encounter with a female prisoner in Qanatir Prison.

Firdaus happens to be a murderess. The novel presents her first-person account. She agrees to tell her life story to the author, before her execution.

She describes the poverty and neglect she had to face during her childhood. She remembers being circumcised by her mother.

Firdaus narrates that she had been orphaned and then sent to secondary school. She did well at her school, but after her graduation, she was compelled to marry Sheikh Mahmoud. She describes him as a disgusting man who abused her both physically and emotionally.

Once, he beats her very brutally. She cannot endure it anymore, and consequently leaves home and becomes a high-end prostitute. As a prostitute, she comes across several abusive and manipulative men.

A man named Marzouk becomes her pimp, although she does not allow him to be her pimp. She does not want to be under his control. She eventually decides to leave, but Marzouk threatens her with a knife and tries to prevent her escape. There is a struggle between the two. Firdaus stabs Marzouk to death.

She later confesses her crime. She is arrested and imprisoned. Firdaus thinks deeply about men and draws a conclusion that all men are criminals. She is told to submit an appeal on the grounds that she has not committed a crime, but she refuses to do so.

She eventually meets her death as a free woman. She is not at all afraid and she does not have any regrets at the time of her death.

Woman at Point Zero investigates how women are subjugated, circumcised, and kept under the control of men in a patriarchal society.

Saadawi, the author of the present novel, the Director of Health Education and the Editor in Chief of Health Magazine. When she published Women and Sex, she was removed from her position in 1972.

Having been removed from her post, the author began to do research on neurosis in Egyptian women. During her quest, she came across a doctor at Qanatir

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