DELINEATING FEMALE CHARACTERS IN WOLLSTONECRAFT’S MARIA AND EL SAADAWI’S WOMAN AT POINT ZERO: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

This study was undertaken to analyze the similarity of portraying female characters in Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria (1798) and El Saadawi’s Women at Point Zero (1973). The purpose behind choosing these novels is attributed to their critical impact in feminist fiction writing. The novelists have written the considered novels as an attempt to act out their feminist theories. Moreover, Wollstonecraft and El Saadawi come from very dissimilar cultures, religions, places and times; nonetheless they have depicted their heroines in a strikingly similar way. Applying theories of both Second Wave Feminism and American School of Comparative Literature revealed that kinds of oppression that women have passed through all over the world are the same. Since all societies are patriarchal, women have been deemed to suffer. The observation to emerge from the data is that female writers have been writing themselves rather than creating imaginary worlds to their novels. They have spiced up their fiction with their own experiences which in turn validated their stories.

کلیدواژه ها:

The Wrongs of Woman or Maria ، Woman at Point Zero ، female writers ، comparative literature