Open AccessDestiny of her Own
Author(s) -
Cherine Abou Nasr EI-Yafi
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.611
Subject(s) - destiny (iss module) , nothing , romance , pleasure , art , appeal , opera , subordination (linguistics) , psychology , sociology , literature , law , philosophy , political science , engineering , linguistics , epistemology , neuroscience , aerospace engineering
"Destiny of her Own" is a lavish historical melodrama that has enough suds, sex, and flashes of flesh to appeal to soap opera lovers and enough substance to attract those of a more intellectual bent. It is beautifully filmed , wonderfully acted , and certainly nothing short of entertaining. It deals with themes of forbidden love, religious intolerance, subordination of women, sexual freedom, and the roles of pleasure and sin in a high-cultured society. While the movie does more than pay lip service to themes of female empowerment and religious intolerance, the main focus is hopeless romance.