Feminist Literature: the Story of Zahra by Hanaan al-Sheikh as an example of feminist Literature

One of the subjects that Feminist Literature takes interests in is the image of womens' daily life and their requirements. The Literature is also interested in how women form ideational consciousness as well as social consciousness under the given social, economic and political conditions. In this case, literature is employed as a means to describe what it means to be a woman and what kinds spiritual problem face her in the society. The Story of Zahra tells something more than the story line. It tells something us about the circumstances during the internal conflicts in Lebanon. In this literary piece of work, Zahra, a female protagonist has pimples on her face and they are taken as the symbol to signify the military conflicts and scars from those fights. The author tries to shed light on the actual and painful circumstances in which women are placed, and this situation will eventually lead women to a total loss. In the unique way of writing, the writer also highlights the political situation in which people of Lebanon are deluded to believe that the use of force would be able to bring about reconstruction and redevelopment of Lebanon, far from destroying the country.