Semiotics of Place in Osama Muslim's Novel Fear

Abstract

The novel 'Fear' by the writer Osama Al-Muslim reflected what society suffers from in terms of fraud, superstition, and magic. We find the protagonist of the novel has suffered a lot from charlatans, foremost among them the sheikh who treated him. The protagonist used to go to him with his mother to treat his stomach, and the sheikh would douse him with oils and spit on him to no avail. In the end, the police arrested him. Similarly, the sorcerer Ammar kept him in his house for three years reading in his library. This novel dealt with narrative semiotics that addressed place and highlighted closed places such as the house, hotel, library, mosque, and others, as well as open places like the market, garden, city, village, and others. It also dealt with the place and its relationship to the character, and the relationship of the place to description. It appeared in all the events that took place in the novel that fear dominates the atmosphere of the novel from beginning to end.