one. It is important to note that Esther uses the word “their” instead of “my”, which reflects her extreme sense of alienation from herself. A very fundamental binary has been called into question here- Esther doesn’t even recognize whether her reflection is that of a man or a woman. Where else do we get a better sense of alienation than in a mirror. Helene Cixous might have suggested to write through one’s body but the dichotomous relation here is that it not enough to write through your body as
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin