Season of Migration to the North

Season of Migration to the North is a novel that shows the story of the interaction between an unnamed narrator and Mustafa. Mustafa was a mysterious character because he seemed to show no emotion or gratitude towards others. He takes pride in sexually dominating the women from Britain and drives them to death. He seems to take pride in all of his actions relating to the death of these women and throughout the novel he explains how he seduces them and dominates them. He shows an attraction to western culture, he is obsessed with the smell, the language, everything about western culture attracts him and we see this initial attraction when he encounters Mrs. Robinson. She represented the western culture and he became obsessed with her which later drove him to lie to other women in order to seduce them and dominate this western culture that was mysterious yet so intriguing. He would feed them false stories about the east to seduce them and here we see an encounter between the curiosity of both east and west towards each other. The women would find Mustafa intriguing because he embodied a part of the world that was unknown to their western eyes and Mustafa took pride in dominating their western being.