Portrayal of the Methods in Gender Inequality To be or no to, the question most women ask themselves today. Many individuals today believe that living a life of a female is easy, but that is because they do not know what problems women face everyday. In many places around the world many women are being marginalized to a reduced state. For making the smallest flaws, women are being punished as a result of both physical and verbal harassment. A Thousand Splendid Suns, a fictional novel by, Hosseini, illustrates the average everyday life two women who goes by the names: Mariam and Laila. Throughout the novel the Hosseini discusses the protagonists struggles to get their freedom from their husband. In the novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns,
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For example in 2003 Majhid Khan was arrested and kept inside the Salt Pit for attempted murder by the CIA. Throughout his stay in prison, he was brutally harassed in various ways that involved being force feed through the anus. This torture is actually useless since he still has not given the CIA any information as to who planned this. This is just a type of physical harassment given to men, in reality as well as these men getting physically tortured, one in five women everyday are being oppressed by physical harm. The act of this unjust matter is also expressed in the novel as Hosseini displays the outcome of women not doing what they are told. For example, after Rasheed found Mariam’s food to not be appealing, he force-feed Mariam pebbles. This is shown in the novel as Rasheed says: “put these in your mouth”(Hosseini, 94). The tragedy expressed in this quote exemplifies the physical mistreatment of women, because forcing another to eat something that can physically hurt them is too indeed a method of physical harassment. In some extreme places in the world, it has been common to see women getting physically tortured in public as a result of punishment. For example in countries like Saudi Arabia, women are being stoned to …show more content…
As well as creating a set of rules for individuals, society has also placed rules and restrictions for each of the sexes, where mainly women are affected by these rules. As often seen in society if women are to abandon these rules they are punished by society as whole, since as Tyson from Critical Theory Today says it, “society talks”. The act of this is also portrayed in A Thousand Splendid Suns. People often give advice based off of what they have gone through in life, and advices are often given to improve to the betterment of lives for future generations. In the novel, Hosseini does this by showing the advice that Mariam’s mother has given Mariam. In the novel, Mariam’s mother says: “Learn this now and learn this well, my daughter: like a compass needle pointing north, a man’s accusing finger will always point a women”(Hosseini, 26). This advice relates to the harassment by society because by showing that this advice is given to another, not following this advice has ruined her life in a certain way. It is even sadly implicitly said in this quote that society only believes what comes out of a man’s mouth, but not what a women says. Secondly, as described by Tyson in the, Critical Theory Today, getting married is like sighing a labor contract, where the wife is forced to work 24 hours a day, without any recognition.
For example in 2003 Majhid Khan was arrested and kept inside the Salt Pit for attempted murder by the CIA. Throughout his stay in prison, he was brutally harassed in various ways that involved being force feed through the anus. This torture is actually useless since he still has not given the CIA any information as to who planned this. This is just a type of physical harassment given to men, in reality as well as these men getting physically tortured, one in five women everyday are being oppressed by physical harm. The act of this unjust matter is also expressed in the novel as Hosseini displays the outcome of women not doing what they are told. For example, after Rasheed found Mariam’s food to not be appealing, he force-feed Mariam pebbles. This is shown in the novel as Rasheed says: “put these in your mouth”(Hosseini, 94). The tragedy expressed in this quote exemplifies the physical mistreatment of women, because forcing another to eat something that can physically hurt them is too indeed a method of physical harassment. In some extreme places in the world, it has been common to see women getting physically tortured in public as a result of punishment. For example in countries like Saudi Arabia, women are being stoned to …show more content…
As well as creating a set of rules for individuals, society has also placed rules and restrictions for each of the sexes, where mainly women are affected by these rules. As often seen in society if women are to abandon these rules they are punished by society as whole, since as Tyson from Critical Theory Today says it, “society talks”. The act of this is also portrayed in A Thousand Splendid Suns. People often give advice based off of what they have gone through in life, and advices are often given to improve to the betterment of lives for future generations. In the novel, Hosseini does this by showing the advice that Mariam’s mother has given Mariam. In the novel, Mariam’s mother says: “Learn this now and learn this well, my daughter: like a compass needle pointing north, a man’s accusing finger will always point a women”(Hosseini, 26). This advice relates to the harassment by society because by showing that this advice is given to another, not following this advice has ruined her life in a certain way. It is even sadly implicitly said in this quote that society only believes what comes out of a man’s mouth, but not what a women says. Secondly, as described by Tyson in the, Critical Theory Today, getting married is like sighing a labor contract, where the wife is forced to work 24 hours a day, without any recognition.