![]() ![]() ![]() The ultimate control is supported by the idea that her mother’s eyes can control the sunlight, earth, and sky. When we are introduced to Firdaus’s mother’s eyes we realize that Firdaus sees her as having ultimate control of her childhood. She uses this quote to emphasize the admiration she had for her mother that never leaves her throughout her life, indicated through how she compares every man’s eyes to those of her mother. This quote appears a few times throughout the novel, specifically once when referencing her mother and afterwards every time she meets a man. Eyes are often referred to as windows into the soul, in the case of Firdaus in Woman at Point Zero, by Nawal El Saadawi, this is a metaphor by which she lives by. ![]()
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