Theme Of Women In The Pakistani Bride

Nuruddin Farah’s novel; From A Crooked Rib, looks at a young woman’s life; Ebla, in a small Somali village who is bound to marry a much older man than she is. He demonstrates how traditional life is in a Muslim village away from civilization and traditions you normally encounter from a feminist perspective. The major themes of this novel express the status of women and their treatment, traditional Islamic values, and escape from this village life. The novel kicks off with describing the village and everything included in it, introducing the main character; Ebla, a young eighteen year old who is bound to marry a much older man than she is whom she has never met.

During the reign of the Taliban, women were subjected to silence while injustice flared through the Middle East. Forced to stay submissive to their superiors, women had no rights nor freedom to surpass society’s upbringings. The main intention of the three novels eliminates the withholdings of education from certain groups. Without these fundamental regulations in women’s favor, the value of peace is threatened.

Growing up and living in Afghanistan as a woman has its challenges. Parents choose who can marry you and they choose everything for you. In this book, Laila and Mariam both show the struggles it is to be a girl, and how much disrespect they get in Afghanistan. Both Mariam and Laila are married to the same man, and he is abusive to both of them. They also live under Taliban rule, and the rules that they set are very unfair for women. In Khaled Hosseni’s novel, he has many different themes but the most prevalent one is of woman inequality, and that is shown through multiple accounts of abuse, disrespect, and unfairness.

Mortenson also shows the underdevelopment of the Muslims through the women of Pakistan. The women in the book are depicted as helpless and shameful. For example, when Greg was “captured’ by the violent “Taliban” he pleaded for release from the savage men by lying about his wife giving birth to a son soon (Mortenson, 170). Mortenson essentializes the Muslim men as underdeveloped and violent by portraying that they value males over females, believing they would only let him go because he was having a son. The worst part about this example from Mortenson was that it was a myth, according to John Krakauer’s critique “Three Cups of Deceit.” Greg staged the Another instance of Mortenson’s essentialism was when Mortenson nursed Rhokia back to health. The women and baby were shown as weak and no one but Greg, of course, was able to help them. Mortenson shows the primitive nature of the people by describing their helplessness. Mortenson said, “For a Balti to let a foreign man, an infidel, have that kind of intimate contact with your wife took an incredible leap of faith”(Mortenson, 179). He once again mentions the underdevelopment and male dominance by asking Rhokia’s husband if it was okay to remove her placenta, instead of directly asking her. Mortenson essentializes the women of Pakistan and portrays them as if they are inferior to men according to

In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, women live in an oppressive, discriminatory Afghan society in which they are deemed useless and obtain little to no rights, yet still manage to endure the burden that falls upon them. After the immensely false interpretations of her father and the bitter fatality of her mother, Mariam’s father demands she marries a stranger considerably older than her at the age of fifteen. Rasheed prays daily in hopes for Laila to produce a male offspring and is exceedingly unappreciative and disrespectful when Laila produces a female instead. Rasheed and the Taliban claim it is extremely blasphemous and embarrassing for a married Afghan woman to look directly into a man’s eyes, wear makeup, or display her knees so Rasheed asserts Mariam and Laila wear burqas. Women’s diminished rights and limited input in society is evident when youthful Mariam unwillingly marries an outright stranger because her father and wives demands she do so.

The pathos that have been shown throughout the novel and has been seen in powerful line of her story. In the novel, it shows us emotion for everyone to see not just us, the readers. She wants the men the men in her country to notice that women should be allowed by their side so they can make the right decision and get a point of view from a woman,“ No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. The third power stronger than both, that of women” (Yousafzai, p.g 31). In her country women are portrayed as servants, housewives and treated badly by men and the society. Women can not go out of their house without a male relative escort even if it is a five year old boy. They are expected to stay at home all day and cook for the male relatives, they aren't allowed to go to school and get a career, they cannot include their voice in politics or in any problem. Women are seen as weak and so are the husbands for asking for their help as seen in the novel, “ Most Pashtun men never do this, as sharing problems with women is seen as weak” ( Yousafzai, p.g. 22). Pathos has and will continue to show throughout the novel because it is directing our attention to issues going on in other countries that we have no idea

In this essay I am going to compare the main characteristics of the two most important characters of this book. They were both born in Afghanistan but each of them was raised by totally different families. In spite of not having the same social background after several years they meet one another and live together, as wives of their strict husband Rasheed who refuses modern rights for women.

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros tells the story of Esperanza Cordero growing up in the Puerto Rican community of Chicago in the form of short stories and poetry. Esperanza longs to own a house that she idealizes as happiness. She strives for a better life outside of the stereotypical gender roles that have suppressed the woman she grew up around. Female genders roles is a strong theme in the novel.

The topic of women in Islam is a very controversial one, inspiring many debates even to this day. The stories of Osama in the movie Osama and the characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns followed central characters Mariam, Laila, and Osama throughout their lives, and explored both personal and general experiences found in their situations. In Osama, Osama was forced to dress up and work as a boy due to her mother and grandmother being barred from working. Suns focused on Mariam and Laila and their lives in Afghanistan under various political rulers, and their marriage to Rasheed. Throughout their lives, these three women had often been oppressed, and their actions reveal how they developed as characters. The oppression of women had impacted and shaped the central characters of the two works both positively and negatively. The central characters were shaped by the oppression of the Taliban’s rule over women, the marital situations they were in, and the early family life they had.

The theme of males dominating the course of Nana’s life is one that she passes down to her daughter, Mariam, the moment she was conceived. Although Mariam is only five years old and has difficulties understanding the way of the world, her mother’s piece of advice foreshadows the events of her own life. From Jalil making the decision for Mariam to be wed against her wishes as a means to erase his past, to her abusive relationship with Rasheed in which she is always at fault in his eyes, Mariam’s life revolves around men’s inability to recognize and take responsibility for their own shortcomings. Hosseini’s depiction of Mariam’s inability to escape the tyranny of sexism paints a picture for readers of the lifelong struggle that than millions of Afghan women face to this day.

Women are often stereotyped as powerless beings and objectified as trophies to men. This stigma that women carry is often illustrate_d inrV types of literatur(µA Thousand Splendid, ( .\\ (j{ 1 VftS , Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini illustrates e power f women, even in the most traiirnatic times of their lives. Hosseini develops a strong female protagonist, Mariam, in the novel through the use comparing and contrasting the cultural views of women durine period to the modem views of women and their capabilities to be just as powerful as men or even more powerful through the development of various traditional and nontraditional relationships. In the novel, Hosseini places a direct focus on family, in the traditional sense.

Compared to my other texts, which seem a lot more aggressive and controversial than this poem, Naheed’s poem is quite ‘tame’ for feminist poetry. However, at the time, after the partition of Pakistan and India, in an extremely militaristic male orientated society, Naheet was well known for her feminist critiques, and they were considered to be very contemporary and contentious. Even now, her discussion of breaking away from the male model of what a woman should be is extremely relevant; “For the wall which has been razed / don’t now insist on raising it again.” Naheed’s argument for a woman’s right to agency and equal opportunities throughout all of her writing has classed her as a feminist poet, though at the time she did not call herself a feminist in 1990’s Pakistan. Her use of plural first person narrative form connects this more classical poem with my other texts, just like women are connected through this sense of

In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, the two protagonists, Mariam and Laila, fight against those who hold power in their lives. In the setting of the book, Afghanistan, women had essentially no rights starting in 1994. This was the year that the Taliban took control of the country after the Soviet Union had left. The Taliban installed a new set of laws which stripped women of their liberties, in the story Mariam and Laila are two of the many women these new rules affected. Mariam and Laila struggle against the structure of their society — which is embodied by their husband Rasheed — and fight against it by continuously trying to break free from Rasheed’s control; and it is this struggle which demonstrates the hardships women face in Afghanistan.

Most of the stories show women as weak, with no authority and that they serve only as sex gadgets by men. Some women are beaten by their husbands while some are replaced by mistresses when they no longer suffice or satisfy their men. This inequality in the gender consideration made women feel oppressed. However, not all women succumbed to this kind of perspective. In fact, women from the past find ways to gain favor of the men or even outwit them. Shahrazad is considered as the hero in this story. She, belonging to the weaker gender, faced the most powerful men to stop him from annihilating their population.

The novel certainly demonstrates where a women’s place is against a man’s, and how men are regarded higher than women in society. Through Babi the ideas that come through when Mohammad Saoud came to power in 1973 are shown, that women should be equal to men as he believes that education is a very important asset in society, even for women. This reflects the ideas that come forward at the time, such as the education of all children and women’s rights to employment. This Is certainly reflected in the way that Babi treats his daughter Laila, by allowing her to go to school and saying ‘Marriage can wait, education cannot’. Though society was moving backwards in women’s rights.