HUMAN 1C Chapter Notes - Chapter movie: Quran
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● “The only freedom from the pain is to be free from the world”
● Munis feels like she is trapped by her brother
○ Munis understands why people are rioting outside. Faiza thinks it’s stupid
● Zarin starts seeing men without faces and runs
○ At the public bath she scrubs so hard she bleeds
● F gets to see the guy she likes
● Munis jumps of roof
● Why are all those women sitting and crying
● The man who went to the west wants F to be happy and do her arts again
●Women without Men
depicts women’s subjection to the demands for purity and chastity
and women’s internalization of what is expected of them for the benefit of the nation.
Against this reality, the female characters’ attempts to escape social and cultural taboos
that circumscribe their existence fail.
○ Any attempt to break free from norms lead to failure
● Mahdokht and others critical of other women having sex
● Transgression comes with a price
○ Munis dies
○ Zarin scraping self clean
● How gender norms are harmful to women, leads to death
● Mahdokht is afraid of sex, turns into tree, turns into pile of seeds, ends up reproducing
○ Fear of sex has been internalized
○ Makes her become not human
● Mrs. F is married but unhappy
Document Summary
The only freedom from the pain is to be free from the world . Munis feels like she is trapped by her brother. Munis understands why people are rioting outside. Zarin starts seeing men without faces and runs. At the public bath she scrubs so hard she bleeds. F gets to see the guy she likes. Why are all those women sitting and crying. The man who went to the west wants f to be happy and do her arts again. Women without men depicts women"s subjection to the demands for purity and chastity and women"s internalization of what is expected of them for the benefit of the nation. Against this reality, the female characters" attempts to escape social and cultural taboos that circumscribe their existence fail. Any attempt to break free from norms lead to failure. Mahdokht and others critical of other women having sex. How gender norms are harmful to women, leads to death.
