Gender Differences In The Film Osama

The movie illustrates America's culture and values in the past. As they show in the movie woman do not have much power and say in things. Their job is to

We are shown her out in the garden hanging out the washing. Her on screen time is less than 30 seconds and she has no lines. She is portrayed to be mentally unstable after the death of her elder son while the boys father is shown to be the stronger of the two parents who is trying to hold his family together. I believe this to be showing women as the weaker sex, mentally.

The characters have no right to think about woman and/or the other way around. Once again, if they disobey this law they will have very serious consequences. One character implies, “For men are forbidden to take notice of woman, and woman are forbidden to take notice of men.” (Rand 38). This quote explains how woman cannot think of men and men cannot think of woman. Which all comes back to the issue in which, the government allows no human to control themselves. So this is another example of how the government controls many lives that are not their

Women were regard as a second class of people. They had neither legal right nor respect from their male counterparts. When the narrator's husband, John, a

Glaspell identifies the inferiority of women by using body language throughout this play. From the very beginning, they are in some

Gender equality was not shown very much in she’s the man. Viola has to act like her brother because she was not treated fairly when they wouldn’t let her on the boys soccer team. Today women are still not fairly treated fairly treated today. Such as in many karaty places where the girl is shown as the weaker sex and not given the same workout as the boys. Also in high school girls aren’t aloud to play on the varsity football team because the are seen as weaker.

In both Osama and A 1000 Splendid Suns the female protagonists live a patriarchal society enforced by the Taliban. Examples of how a patriarchal society is established and shown in Osama and A 1000 Splendid Suns is through the idea of polygamy and the fact that men are allowed to abuse their wives. In a community that is driven by males, men have many more rights than women. For example, men are allowed to practice polygamy. In Osama, the family had already lost their husbands and male relatives, but at the end of the movie, the daughter is married off to an elderly man, whom when she is taken back to his home, has many wives who despise him stating that he, “ruined their lives” (Osama). In A 1000 Splendid Suns, Laila and Mariam were both Rasheed’s wives. When Laila had been added to the mix, Mariam was defensive of Rasheed saying to Laila, “I wouldn’t have fed you and washed you and nursed you if I’d known you were going to turn around and steal my husband” (226). The second example of how a patriarchal society is expressed through both A Thousand Splendid Suns and Osama is through the abuse the women face from their husbands and other men in the society they live in. In Osama, the daughter was hung by her torso above a well when they were suspicious about her gender (Osama). In A 1000 Splendid Suns, abuse is something Laila and Mariam face

The role of the patriarchal society and its impact on the oppression of female characters

There are still on going debates in todays society about gender equality, but it’s crazy to see how 100 plus years ago some of the rights women have now, going to school and voting, didn't exist. In 1912, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns fought together among other women for the right to vote. They fought for not only white women, but women of all races. Throughout Iron Jawed Angels the women fought hard, even during the time of war and while they were in jail, for their rights and equality. It wasn't until August 26, 1920 that women could vote. Before that “women could not attend college or pursue training for most professions” (Woods, 57). During the movie, Alice Paul was creating a friendship with a male who taught her how to drive which is interesting because in todays society almost every women knows how to drive or has the privilege to drive but back then only men drove or could even afford a car because they had the right to work.

In the story “Jury of her Peers,” the women are thought of as inferior. The men treat the women like they are not able to do the same things as the men. “But would the women know a clue if they did come upon it?” (Glaspell 266) The women have “feminine intuition.” They know the pain from isolation that Minnie was going through and know what clues to look for. “Again, for one brief moment, the two women’s eyes found one another.” (Glaspell 280) The men underestimate that the women can think on this level.

In both the movie Osama and the book Nujood Ali: Age 10 and Divorced have the men overruling the women, as in the book, Faez Ali Thamer abuses Nujood sexually and physically and in Osama the Taliban abuse the women physically. There are a lot of fascinating similarities between the film and the

It is through this story; one can feel the hurt and the struggle women have to make living in a male-controlled society where they are treated unfairly. Duong through the tale shows the domination of females basically from men’s desire for power and control. It is believable that the similar demand, which, through history, has motivated men to attempt to dominate other groups in their own society,

In every society each gender’s behavioral response is often a reflection of the societal influences that have been instilled since birth. In every society each gender is subjected to certain roles. Males having to suppress their emotions while women are able to be emotional beings. Women being shunned for exhibiting characteristics of the opposite sex. Although, we live in a society that harps on individuality and self-expression, it is clear that this only applies when individuals do not feel inferior. Additionally, self-expression is only situational and accepted based off of certain agendas. In the following story, Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning, we are able to analyze how a male reacts to feeling inferior to a woman. In The Yellow Wallpaper, which is written by Charlotte Perkins, we are able to analyze how her husband’s lack of understanding and inability to communicate with his wife ultimately leads to her insanity. In each of these stories, gender roles are being depicted in a negative and positive way. Through the character’s actions were able to learn how society views each gender in the time in which the story takes place.

What Bailey McDaniel meant by this is that women couldn’t speak their ideas and how it was frustrating for them. Like in the play, the women were trying to help the men, but the men clearly didn’t want their help or they just make fun of them, as a result, the women took matters in their own hands. Not only does the title have symbolic meaning but also the names of the female characters are also symbolic.

Throughout the various texts and films we observed this semester, there were a multitude of underlying themes associated with each. These themes do not live in a textual or film related vacuum, but rather offer major implications on given Middle Eastern cultures. In the fictional film Offside, directed by Jafar Panahi, he decides to zero in on the complex culture within Iran. He illustrates the culture within Iran by employing the 2006 World Cup qualifying soccer match between Iran and Bahrain as a metaphor of the various social dynamics attached to this sporting event and the country as a whole. That said, there are numerous underlying themes associated with this film. In this paper, however, I will