Oppression of Women in Novel A Thousand Splendid Suns
This one bit of fabric can overwhelm and control such a significant number of women that, as the title of the book proposes, “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs. Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls”. One cannot in any way, shape, or form check the number of men who set themselves as overwhelming or the thousand brilliant women that were taken hidden behind the shroud of their burqas. However, with the evacuation of the Taliban, the splendor of freedom is shown to all individuals, as the compulsory burqa-wearing is removed and the rebuilding of the harmony among people starts. There is to be no more hiding up behind burqas as the social situation of women is on its way to being corrected. Before the finish of the novel, society is being modified and women are increasingly more powerful. The suffocation of society has been evacuated and remodeling has started beginning at home and gradually reverberating throughout the entire of society. Like the manner by which everything is eventually righted in the end of Handmaid’s Tale, the ending of A Thousand Splendid Suns passes on a feeling of developing force of women’s rights and leaves the peruser with an expectation for balance and acknowledgment among men and women.
A Thousand Splendid Suns in this way portrays the predicament of Afghan women under the severe powers of political parties. The women’s lot is generally treated as not being advantageous to live on this earth. Islam has prohibited women to come on avenues without a burqa (veil). It is required and sensible. Since the fair sex is biologically more fragile than man and can without much of a stretch be the casualty of eve-teasing and men’s lustful approaches, the veil serves as a kind of security against these unethical advances. However, in Islam, the veil is not the image of women’s concealment or corruption as reflected in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, rather it symbolizes her protection and security of her humility, respect, and purity. Islam gives women solace and safety from being presented to men. They are not to battle like men or to work in the market like them however, Islam places women on a higher platform than that of men. Unforgiving treatment of women is additionally prohibited in Islam. They are to be thought about, adored genuinely, and regarded for their empathy and perseverance.
Women in Afghanistan defeat affliction and abuse by the opposite sex ordinarily of their lives in and outside the bounds of their own homes. Mariam and Laila are forcibly married to Rasheed both at fifteen years old without wanting to. Marriage in Islam is normally a holy association of two people who regard and respect each other in all circumstances. It is typically a glad event for females and the intercourse is especially with their consent. In the novel, the marriage is a bad dream in which the two women are abused physically and tormented rationally. The lawful wedding age for women in Afghanistan is sixteen, be that as it may, individuals in rustic regions either ignore the law or claim they are unaware of it. It is trusted that somewhere in the range of sixty and eighty percent of the considerable number of marriages in Afghanistan are constrained and out of these fifty-seven percent are child marriages. Mariam is impregnated at sixteen years old. While taking a shower “There was blood and she was screaming” and her baby dies in her womb and it bled down the sewage drain.
What Khaled Hosseini portrays in the novel is really sad not for women just but rather for humankind on the loose. Afghan women are extremely battling for their reality of being born women. Khaled Hosseini’s canvas is expansive and delightful. He makes reference to the requirement for their medicinal services, education, and furthermore their abuse by their fathers, their spouses, their neighbors, and to a great extent by the governmental issues of unending war in Afghanistan. But still, there are fathers and spouses who take care and give love to their subordinates like Babi, Laila’s father, and Fariba’s husband.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a novel that is on the double both merciless and wonderful. From a specific perspective, one can converge into it however one might be roosted high in the sky watching the convergence of a few crossfires. One cross-fire is that of Afghanistan itself, war-torn and decimated by struggle. These are the genuine, literal bullets that rip holes and that tear gaps in homes and leave children illegitimate and mothers childless, and wives widows. However, these shots are regularly given by countries that are numerous miles away, safe from obliteration, safe to play political amusements with unremarkable people. This bigger crossfire extends from “Macedonians, Sassanians, Arabs Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing”.
Inside this bigger crossfire is a smaller, increasingly risky crossfire. In this limited space, the women of Afghanistan are the objectives of profound, mental, physical, and religious maltreatment by men whose torment, dissatisfaction, and distorted religious intensity discover discharged against the most defenseless area of the society; specifically, women. But, out of the torment, the genuine character develops. We stroll along the lanes of Kabul, visit a shelter, a women’s jail, and even deal with the vendors in “Titanic City,” a market -place that sprang up amid the Afghanistan craze over the U.S. film Titanic.
Mariam is detained for murdering her husband in self-defense. She argues however nobody feels for her or tunes in to her, even not the individuals who get themselves completing Shari’a, the “Word of God.” Mariam recalls Nana saying, “This is what it means to be a woman in this world .... Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam”. After Mariam is condemned to death, Laila and Tariq build their home in Murree, Pakistan. They choose to return to Kabul, their home, on July 2002 when Hamid Karzai turns into the interim president of Afghanistan to add to the rebuilding of Afghanistan. With Jalil’s cash for Mariam, Laila renovates the orphanage where Aziza was put to read and write in drought years. Laila is teaching in the same school, reaffirming the significance of women in Afghan society. Here comes the role of women folk in the Nation’s improvement in Afghanistan. The novel consequently finishes on a note of hope for the Afghan women.
