“My Body is My Own Business”
Formalist View on Naheed Mustafa’s Scrutiny on Vanity
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Conceivably one of the most renouncing issues lingered to by women today is the fact that beauty is major factor which one must piously keep in track with the sensual bounds of acceptance, liberation and consciousness. The echelon of the contemporary society’s view on women has been fully drawn to the line of physical prejudice thus broadening the challenge for women to keep the ‘innate ability’ to drive men in the nirvana of craving after them by showing skin (Mustafa).
Introduction
The emerging rise of issues and the reputation earned by the Islamic community has belligerently raised the brow of the masses. Pertinently establishing the standpoint that the isolation of their kind is but the manifestation on why they are considered as the ‘silent kind’ in most Christian communities. In a prose written by Naheed Mustafa, she piously got the gist of her real intent upon writing such. It is evident that her main purpose is to defend the women in her kind and apparently earn credit over what she seemingly believes is not just and oppressing in the Islamic-women scenario. The fact that she is a Muslim herself, gave her an advantage on the topic she chose to illustrate thus, giving light to the item in the most profound and proficient way since that she is a part of the ‘protagonist’ arena, as described in her story.
Point of View
The author’s persona is quite evident in the structure and the plot conveyed in the story. How she has illustrated the occurrences of the events and the complications which she has sought in her life had been clearly defined in the most appropriate fields, leading a reader to jump in the dimension which primarily results to historical precession. The piece’s characteristic of belying in the first hand basis added flavor to the story thus any reader shall be able to place his or her shoe in the situation of the author. Even though on the contrary, her views may deliberately show to be biased in a sense, a formalist reader shall understand upon taking heed of such since that she Mustafa is a woman armed with the traditions and the attributes possessed by Muslims which is, to stand on what they tend to believe is right.
Structure
The array of ideas that the author has crafted may utterly seem to fall in a factual basis. She only established the general views and perspectives on what she is trying to portray, as well as not taking the flow of the prose to the specific points to drive the hysteria on the landscape of persuasion through first hand experience. Her subliminal ways of interpreting the instances which floated in her own life, as well as with pieces of historical incidences sought by women of her kind, may be correlated as that of a river-to-ocean scheme. She first tackles on the ‘real events’ with realistic examples then moving with the fundamental purpose of the story. “Factual and persuasive,” would be the suitable term.
Substance and Strategy
In the light, the author did not fail in the collaboration of the piece in the symbolic and substantial sense. When she has stated her experiences during her youthful years and her nationality (Canadian-born Muslim woman), it is evident that she intends her audience to feel her own emotions and send images on what is indeed happening. Her ability to drive the audience in the situation which she expects the group to linger on to serves her grandeur in thoroughly understanding her objective through the use of examples, symbols, and events which she expects readers to be familiar of — an undeniable force of function rather than wholes of shallowness. The capability of the piece to capture the hearts and the sympathy of the masses shall grant her the benefit of the acclaim thus astoundingly keeping her bereft.
Conclusion
How a certain author is able to deliver the gist of the purpose of writing a piece actually depends upon how one is able to consider the point of fact that readers possess different views on respective things. Thus, Naheed Mustafa’s bias, as clearly shown in her work, may accordingly sound as an insult to those which are regarded in her story. However, in a liberal state of the context, she has carefully cited her arguments in a rather hanging scheme which also portrays the viewpoint that she is not trying to force people to understand and follow her beliefs, thus to instill a holistic summit of acceptance and realization on her side. Truly, My Body is My Own Business is opulence in non-fiction.
Work Cited
Mustafa, Naheed. “My Body Is My Own Business.” Beautiful Islam, 1995.
