Introduction of Common Threads in Literary Texts

In this section, it will be introduced in detail that what the common thread is between three literary texts: Woman at Point Zero, a novel by Nawal El Saadawi, Chicken with Plums, a book by Marjane Satrapi, and Howl, a poem by Allen Ginsberg. These three literary texts are different as they are all telling the different stories, but there is one common thread between these three texts, and that is misery of life. It is common in three texts that how life can be cruel in so many different ways.

Body of Common Threads in Literary Texts

In the Woman at Point Zero novel, the story is about a woman, who is facing a death sentence after killing a man, but she was never like that. The woman name is Firdaus, and the writer meets her in the jail to know about her story. When Firdaus reveals her whole life story, it is quite sad one as she has been betrayed, and faced so many cruel situations throughout her life. Her miseries never ended and in the end, she was waiting for her death sentence with open arms. Then there is story of Iran’s renowned musician named Nasser Ali Khan in the book Chicken with Plums. The writer reveals the story of Nasser Ali Khan that how a great tar player became sick for knowing the fact that his broken tar instrument would never be replaced by any other same kind of tar, and he gets sick. After finding this fact, he died within eight days, and the book describes the misery of these eight days as Nasser waist for his death. The poem Howl is the third text being analyzed. This poem discusses the fact that how best minds of the writer’s generation has destructed their minds. The poem goes through the misery of those destructed minds of world travelers, drop out, drug users as well as poets.

There can be different theories to explain these three texts as they are different stories, but having one common concept that is misery of life. To explain the meaning of Howl poem, the Literary Critical Theory will be reviewed in this paper. The theory will be applied on the poem Howl, and its meaning would be derived accordingly. For the novel, Woman at Point Zero, the selected literary theory is Queer Theory, which is very close to the ideas of feminism. This novel describes the misery of a woman, and Queer theory would be interesting to apply with this novel to see that one gender is being suppressed in the society. The literary theory selected for Chicken with Plums is called Formalism Literary Theory, which would critically analyze the text.

Conclusion of Common Threads in Literary Texts

In the end, a conclusion will be made on all three texts for their common thread, and what is driven out of these texts after applying three literary theories, which are relevant to each text.