Daydreams in the Novel of Samt Alfarashat (silence of butterflies)
Muntaha Al-Harahsheh, Department of Arabic Language and Literature.
Al al-Bayt University- Jordan.
Abstract
This study discusses daydreaming, as one of the main technical devices that have been demonstrated notably in the novel "The Silence of Butterflies" of the contemporary Kuwaiti novelist Laila al-Othman. It tackles, in light of the thematic approach, daydreams of the main characters of the novel, namely; Zeinab's dream, Nadia's dreams: the escape dream, the studying dream, the owning apartment dream, and the dream of love: dreaming of Jawad, and dreaming of Atiah. The main purposes to approach these daydreams are to reveal the suffering and reality of women, and their insides and components in the Arab patriarchal societies, and to understand the reasons for their silence. In addition to that, the study seeks to clarify the impact of the interaction of language, time and place in the formation of daydreaming in the novel, and the nods embodied in daydream, and its impact on the behavior of the characters, and the awareness of the act for the writer.
The study, among its most important results, concludes that the technique of daydreams enabled the writer to put her vision of women's issues and worries on the table research and discussion, and opened the door wide to visualize the tragedies of women in Kuwaiti society in particular and Arab societies in general, and to alert the reader to the dangers of imbalance in dealing with women in patriarchal societies, and bury their aspirations, and drawing intellectual and aesthetic awareness that raises questions, and incites the reader to develop tools to extract the idea of text that makes up woman his first authority.