¶ … Shame" is a novel that is bursting with anger. And yet to call it a novel is not quite true; it is a satire in the way that Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" and Gulliver Twist's works were satires and in the way that Candide satirized his own society. Rushdie satirizes large swathes of the Muslim world today -- largely the parts in the Middle East -- and his anger burn the pages.
Rushdie, victim of a death threat in the past, tries to steer himself clear from future threat by describing his book as an "a sort of modern fairy tale," which nobody need take seriously and which, since it is set in "not quite Pakistan,' (3) need not provoke the authorities to censor it or have it burned. However, the correspondence to contemporary Pakistan, and Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, amongst other places is visible and real.
Omar Khayyam Shakil is born to three sisters who keep him hidden in an attic during his formative years. Entrance to the sisters' abode is accessed only through a dumb waiter who ascends and descends the outside wall. Shakil, however, views the outside world through his telescope. It is thus that he sees the "incomprehensibly appealing figure" (14) of 14-year-old Farah Zoroaster. Once released to study in .
This social cruelty and meaningless is duplicated on a wider scale where, again extremely representative of the chaotic Middle East, Rushdie portrays two different types of rulers: the one who is a famous warrior, Gen. Raza Hyder, who becomes president-dictator of his country. The other who is a rich landlord and playboy, becomes prime minister and is eventually hanged and replaced by Hyde in a rigged trial. This is no fictitious tale. These rulers are emblematic of contemporary Middle Eastern politics.
Islamic society devolves on shame. Women have to be protected to prevent men from sinning. Rushdie satirizes this with the scene of the harem where Bilquis, wife of Hyder, must sleep in a cavernous chamber with the other women from that huge family and where the husbands tiptoe "along the midnight avenues of the dormitory" to their respective…
Communion Describe the gender-specific relationship between men, women and love. How is it different? Why? How does gender socialization contribute to these masculine and feminine roles in relationship to love and relationships in general? In Communion, Hooks discusses a plethora of sometimes conflicting and contradictory gender roles. Women are "prophetesses," "advisors," wives, homemakers, mothers, nurses, nurturers, and teachers. The differences between gender roles in intimate heterosexual relationships can be traced to social
" Emecheta uses metaphors, similes and allusions with appropriate timing and tone in this book, and the image of a puppet certainly brings to mind a person being controlled, manipulated, made to comply instantly with any movement of the controlling hand. In this case Ego seems at the end of her rope -- the puppet has fallen nearly to the floor and is dangling helplessly. The Emecheta images and metaphors are
Clinical Psychology Dissertation - Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach: Ego Gratification vs. Repressed Feelings An Abstract of a Dissertation Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach: Ego Gratification vs. Repressed Feelings This study sets out to determine how dreams can be used in a therapeutic environment to discuss feelings from a dream, and how the therapist should engage the patient to discuss them to reveal the relevance of those feelings, in their present,
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