Theme Of Women In Thousand Splendid Suns

After the Taliban came into power, women had very limited power over their lives. Every aspect of their lives were regulated by the government; education was denied, marriage was forced upon them, a dress code was put in place and even their speech was monitored. Every aspect of women 's lives were regulated by men at a point in time. They could be seen as products of their society because of how controlled their lives were as men had significant power over women. In the novel, Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini it could clearly be seen that women had very little control over their own lives. "No matter. The point is, I am your husband now, and it falls on me to guard not only your honor but ours, yes, our nang and namoos. That is the …show more content…
Miss Younger tries to justify Marta 's desire to go to school so she could further her life, however the Taliban refuse to because she is for one she 's a woman and also because she is pregnant. Even though she was raped by a soldier from the Taliban. "Marta is very intelligent, I said. She could be a doctor. A teach. She could help the children in the village. The is no place for a woman to do those things, he said... The is a way that men speak to women that reminds me too much of Kevork" (132). Miss Younger, the owner of the orphanage in Marash, realizes that to the Turkish Taliban her only value is her position with respect to men. Miss Younger is valuable because she can educate boys. The only thing that the Taliban are interested in is maintaining their dominance over women by denying females education and by speaking down to them." Parantzim asked her daddy why he beat Marta. Mr.Brighton said, Cause she 's my wife. Plus she is stubborn. All women good for … he didn’t finish. He just tucked his chin over the paper like he does. Parantzim asked Marta, How come your so stubborn? He didn’t ask how you became his wife. Nobody asked that. Marta said, Just born that way, I reckon. He beat Marta like he beat the children in the orphanage. Except he don 't, her hardly ever beat them. He say, Parantzim, get the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. Marta visibly bit her tongue trying not to cry" (111). Mr. Brighton beat Marta in the public in front of all the children, as if she was no human with no feelings. He often treated Marta and all the other female workers at the orphanage as if they 're children and perhaps, worse than children.The vision of equality between genders has narrowed the possibilities for discovery of what truly exists within a man and within a