Society today is altered and shaped by the way people interact with and feel about others around them. I will be comparing and using the novels of Shame and One Hundred Years of Solitude to portray the differences and similarities between the two cultures and how women are perceived. Shame by Salman Rushdie is based on Pakistani culture, and surely has many similarities in gender roles to the Latin American culture portrayed in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez. Additionally, in society today, gender roles are said to have become more fluid, with people beginning to accept that women have the same rights and obligations as men. I am planning to argue that in many ways gender roles have not become more fluid. In both society today
