WOMEN JUSTICE AND INTEGRITY.
“In Camera”, a young innocent girl is victim of a constant physical and emotional abuse by ten men; that deprive the victim of her freedom and ultimately her morals as a woman. She has been raped by her impossibility to defend herself or seek for help; however, she manages to fight back with courage by calling “Him” all men figure “stupid” and breaking for first time the stigma that women are subordinate of men. “They only reach the seat of power, my girl, when they are morally deformed and internally corrupt” pg.1108 – uncontrollable men abusing their own power and privileged position in a society that is only led by their horrendous actions and lack of commitment when it comes to the idea of “men and women are equal” in the eyes of God. But because of the religion, as an excuse, or the stigma that women must follow men “Him, whom God protect to lead this noble nation all his life” pg 1109 – there is a complete avoidance and removal of the main role of women in society and a constant oppression and violence exerted to them – a mother, a daughter, a child; the same oppression and repression men experienced in colonialism, where men were constantly exploited and abused were now being enforced and reinforced in women.
This story travels back and forth from the physical abuse and the psychological impact on the victim. All these events, described while she is being accused pending a judgement from “the authority” which struggles to find the best way to convince the public of her accusation. While in the trial, she is trying to get a sense of her past life experience and thus, she recalls her interaction with her beloved mother, her shared suffering towards the stigma that women are meant to suffer and the presence of her father resigning not only from his daughter life but his own. “Death was preferable for him and for her now” pg 1113.
Finally, the trial has a turning point where the judge makes a true statement about her accusation and indeed, he acknowledges, in front of the public, that she is about to be sentenced for the same reason she has been abused and deprived for her morals. At this point, the conference chambers “In Camera” serves a a checkpoint that the men’s right must be the law and its subordinates, women must follow the injustice and misfortunes faced in a society that in reality is not far from animal kingdom.
…and the “victim” finally is taken back to where she’d been before] -pg 1115
1. If you were to be in the father or mother position -observing the way she was enduring pain and hallucination on her trial- would you have stand up and claim for her justice even if that was ground for social rejection? How would have being her mother’s reaction different from her father?
2. Under these circumstances, is there any possible way she can find justice within herself (her own justice in search of peace)? any idea for social justice?