Opposites and their significance in the novel Trying to Live by Muhammad Zafzaf

Abstract

Many contemporary novelists have taken care of the opposite dichotomies, and their novels are not devoid of this technique. We find Muhammad Zafzaf, in his novel "Attempt to Live", expressing the marginalized within the Moroccan society through the society of the wilderness. One of the findings of the article is that the narrator introduces the reader to the problems that exist in Moroccan society and that there are personalities who bear the meanings of exploitation and domination, and seek to exploit their influence in order to impose their control on the population of the city and reject and marginalize them. It also talks about the domination of the masculine system and the oppression of women by society and the family and customs, and refers to some of the traditions that Moroccan society adheres to, such as superstition and parents choosing wives for their children.