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The Body, The Tool - In the novels, "Woman at Point Zero" by Nawal El Saadawi and "Three Sisters" by Anton Checkhov
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The Body, The Tool In the novels, "Woman at Point Zero" by Nawal El Saadawi and "Three Sisters" by Anton Checkhov, the body is used as a tool to achieve certain goals for the characters of Firdaus and Natasha. Firdaus, a young girl who grows up in a world that is ruled by men, must use her body as a means of survival, leading her to prostitution. Where as Natasha uses her body to work her way up the social ladder of aristocratic life in pre-Revolutionary Russia. In "Woman at Point Zero", Firdaus has to use her body as means of survival. She is brought up in a society that is dominated by the male gender, and is used repeatedly by "them" (the male population) until she gets her revenge. Her revenge comes in the murder of a pimp, who like all the men in this novel want...
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