The Image of the Political Power in Ziad Mohafza’s Inmates of the Darkness

Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine the image of the political authority, its political values, and visions embodied in the novel of Ziad Mohafza, Inmates of the Darkness. It also analyzes the reflections of its politics on the lives of the characters and reality in particular. It exposes the culture of violence based on oppression, tyranny, and discrepancy between the ruler and the ruled. The study answers the following questions: Did the novel seek to rebel against power? What are the means the novel depicts in revealing the practices of power and depicting the life of injustice and alienation of the oppressed? Does the use of repression and tyranny depend on political power? The researcher followed the stylistic approach in the analysis, which, in turn, relies on the descriptive and analytical approaches as two measures to achieve the stylistic analysis.