Novels Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi and Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In the novels Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi and Chronicles of a Death foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The emotion of fear motivates the characters of the Vicario brothers and Firdaus. It is through their fear that crucial events in both stories are caused. There is a cause and effect relationship between fear and the events that take place. The respective characters experience fear; however they deal with it differently, and the ways they handle it results in how they cope with fear, which is due to a great extent to the particular societies they live in.

Even the bravest of hearts have experienced some form of fear, but what exactly is fear? Is it that distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, or is it when messages are converted into one's neurons that warn us about related events. In any case whether fear is real or imagined fear is displayed in both the novels Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi and Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Fear is the most noticeable emotion that is used to tell the stories of the characters of Firdaus and the Vicario brothers, it is the dominating emotion that causes the crucial events to occur in the characters life's. Societal culture and customs are related to the characters individual fears. The main character Firdaus in Women at Point Zero from birth has been surrounded by fear, author Nawal El Saadawi examines the significance of Firdaus's fear through the various stages of her life. The emotion of fear motivates the characters of the Vicario brothers and Firdaus. It is through their fear that crucial events in both stories are caused. There is a cause and effect relationship between fear and the events that take place. The respective characters experience fear; however they deal with it differently, and the ways they handle it results in how they cope with fear, which is due to a great extent to the particular societies they live in.

Firdaus is a perfect representation of the portrayal of fear. From birth born a low status woman and located in a country were women were not equal to men, fear has basically been with Firdaus her whole life. As she got older and battled with fear, the fear itself matured as well, the fear that she experienced while growing up was not as fully matured like how it was towards the end of the book when her fear turns into courage. The events that she experienced while growing up increased Firdaus's fear, mistreated by her father, mother and uncle. One of the earliest displays of Firdaus's fear that started this contsant battle of fear in her life was on page 16, when Firdaus realizes the truth about how her and her mother are not related by blood. Her safety zone was deflated, because she finally knew the truth about who her real "mother" however, she was able to distinguish between her real mother and fake mother by looking in their eyes, which were like