![]() ![]() ![]() The mood then shifts to bittersweet triumph. Because of the events Firdaus details, the mood for the bulk of the novel is disheartening, until Firdaus breaks free from fear. Although Firdaus is telling the psychiatrist and the reader about horrific events, she is a calm and collected storyteller, and she takes pride in the life she led before being incarcerated. Thus, as the reader finishes the psychiatrist’s section of the novel, the mood is anticipatory.Īlternatively, the tone in Firdaus’s section is calm, reflective, and confident. Saadawi is there to research neurosis in female inmates Firdaus has been convicted of murder and is scheduled to be hanged in a few days. The psychiatrist desperately wants to meet with Firdaus, and the reader feels the rollercoaster of emotions the psychiatrist experiences as Firdaus first refuses, and then agrees, to meet her. Nawal El Saadawi, an Egyptian psychiatrist, states that what follows is the true story of Firdaus, a woman Saadawi meets in Qanatir Prison. The tone in the psychiatrist’s section is investigative and urgent. This difference serves a stylistic and structural purpose because it helps to characterize the psychiatrist and Firdaus. ![]() ![]() The tone and mood of the psychiatrist’s section of the novel are different from the tone and mood of Firdaus’s section. ![]()
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