Vice and Taboo in The Novelist Maialoon Hadi's World

Abstract

          The present study deals with the concepts of vice and taboo in the novelist, Masialoon Hadi's world. These two concepts were paid great attention by Maisaloon Hadi in her writings (novels) and formed the body of these novels. The novelist expressed her continuous protest against life reality through these two concepts which are dominant in here novels. She is the best novelist who stands agalnst the social and the political state which Iraqis pass through.

          The concept of vice is very clear in our society and it is the dominant in comparison the taboo. It becomes comprehensive and it competes laws and religion. The novelist used the concept of taboo as a means to unmask the Arab governments and she criticized them with hypocrisy and duplicity as they take religion as a means to get on legitimacy and compel women to put on veil because of vice not legality. She emphasized that fear controls women in the Arab Homeland. This case influences her behavior.

          The study is of descriptive nature in the analysis of vice and taboo. The researcher consulted many authentic references concerned with criticism