Nawal El Saadawi "s classic, "Woman at Point 0" is a novel filled with symbolic significance and social cognotation towards female discrimination. ... The reader can also discern such perpetual suffocation regarding women in society through quotidian activities such as eating, were the eyes are once more utilized as a symbol of female compliance towards male domination... Her mother is perhaps the readers first ecounter with gaze symbolism in the novel. ... The narrator continually mentions this in every single eye description he reader encounters... Understanding its symbolic significance, ...

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