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Question: Discuss About The Complicity With Orientalism World Writing? Answer: Introducation The book Dreams of Trespass: Tales of Harem girlhood written by Fatima Mernissi describes the story of a girl of the Moroccan Harem (Mernissi, 1995). The girl who is the protagonist of the story questions everything she observes and at first it may seem that the questions that the girl is asking has no importance at all because it is just the things a child is interested to know about the world. However, it can be observed after some time that her questions are about the harem life and the frontier or boundary is the main unit that is slowly shaping her life as well as her insight (Mernissi, 2015). She operations the answers to her questions, what she observed that in a harem questions are not asked because someone wants to know something; it is asked to understand the happenings of the place. As the story evolves, it is seen that frontier becomes a big problem in her life and it changes everything. After a certain time she wants to find out how the frontier works and as the story pr oceeds, she ends us having an inconsistent relationship with all the boundaries or frontier she is covered with in her life. Slowly with time, looking for the frontier becomes her occupation and while discovering the frontier her life became disordered. The writing style of Mernissi depicted the harem as a frontier because the women had to take permission or justify themselves with proper reason in case they wanted to step in or out of the harem (Bourget, 2013). The writer portrayed the character of Mernissis mother with fluency and this can be said because she was the one to dream that she would live alone with her husband and children. She thought when everyone stays at a bounded place life becomes miserable. The book has many frontiers, the one between the Christians and Muslims, the other one for the dressing of women, another for the children and lastly hearing of radio (Bourget, 2013). Harem is not at all a good place, for not only what the author wrote in the book about it but in any individual perspective also, harem does not sound a good thing. Harem is mainly a place many wives of a single man live together, precisely; it is a place, where a woman is bound to share her husband with other women (Ayadi, 2014). Stuck in a harem means that the woman has lost her freedom and is surrounded by many frontiers, which she is unable to break. The author has presented the character of Yasmina to be a strong one who seemed to believe that every individual has many frontiers in their life and harem according to her was the forbidden place (Moruzzi, 2016). According to Yasminas perspective as seen in the story, harem may take away many freedoms but it provides freedom to someone else. The frontier affected each of the lives of women living there but who sets the frontiers is still unknown or who is the one to decide what frontier must be implemented (Benmessaoud, 2013). Similarly, in life, people come across many frontiers but the person who started it is still unknown. In the book, the author used the character of Yasmina to define what a harem is and clearly depicts the fact that harem is a place where the husband is the owner and his instructions are needed to be followed (Magliaro, 2014). The book clearly depicted within the character of Yasmina that a womans life is always covered with sorrow, as a woman who is working at home is not paid but men are paid and this increases the status of men in the world and in personal spaces as well (Alfano et al., 2014). Reflection: After reading the story, I found that harem is a place where the women used to stay along with other wives of their husbands. The place had many frontiers and the women had no option than to accept the frontiers and live life as it is. They did not have the right to ask any questions and all the questions that they have were not at all acceptable by others. The women had no life of their own and they ended up living a life full of boundaries where they cannot even ask their husband to stay with them alone. The harem was a forbidden place and once the women started living there they inscribe the fact in their head that they are forbidden. The author has carefully marketing the matter of frontier in the book. This can be said because after reading the story I got a very clear notion about the fact that women had no options for their own, they were kept covered by frontiers because women have the ability to change the rules of the world and turn every frontier down. I understood that th e frontiers are set for women to stop them from revolting and when the women got power, they will break every frontier. The story also made me understood a very good thing, which is that many powerful countries used the concept of harem to dominate women. Since the world came into existence, there is a constant dominance towards and I truly feel that everyone must try to abolish this kind of practise so that everyone is equally treated irrespective of his or her gender. The frontier in the world will always stay, as there are people who want the barriers to exist so that the women can be dominated as usual. It is very important to let women live their life their way similarly what the men does with their life. In the book, Fatima has clearly depicted the story of women in her own words and I completely agree with her views about women because they are not a possession and without them, the world will truly not exist. Women are a powerful entity and they are the one to suffer and sacrifice more since a very long time. Lastly, the concept of frontier is still a concerning factor in a womans life. 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