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To what extent do male and female literary characters accurately reflect the role of men and women in society?
Plan:
Deconstruct the question
Talk about both the novels
Come to the point and compare both the novels.
Don't deviate from the topic
Talk about characters.
The male and female characters play a vital role in both the novels and it definitely reflects the role of men and women society. In Gabriel Garcia's Chronicle of a Death Foretold and in Khaled Hosseini's thousand splendid suns both male and female characters have an important role and most of the time they are biased towards men and these events also happen in our society. Men are given more leeway and have the freedom to do anything they want. The question depicts how men and women are differentiated and how men overpower them and control them. Both the novels were written a long time ago, but still the same impact is left on the society as a high percentage of people have only one mindset that women are just needed for house work and give birth to a child, if not they are beaten up badly, they tend to abuse women and are very cruel towards them. This is quite evident in both the novels, in thousand splendid suns Rasheed treats both Mariam and Laila in a cruel manner, he beats them up and especially Mariam because she could not conceive a baby also Rasheed used to make Mariam eat pebbles. Even now these events regularly happen in countries like Afghanistan. "Now you know what your rice tastes like. Now you know what you've given me in this marriage. Bad food, and nothing else."
This is what Rasheed tells to Mariam after she could not give birth to a child, he tries to make Mariam feel bad in all the ways possible and this shows that Mariam's inability to give Rasheed a son will continue to make him more and more bitter towards her. In our society also sometimes women are treated this way, because they seem to be weak and men tend to take advantage of that fact. In Gabriel Garcia's
Plan:
Deconstruct the question
Talk about both the novels
Come to the point and compare both the novels.
Don't deviate from the topic
Talk about characters.
The male and female characters play a vital role in both the novels and it definitely reflects the role of men and women society. In Gabriel Garcia's Chronicle of a Death Foretold and in Khaled Hosseini's thousand splendid suns both male and female characters have an important role and most of the time they are biased towards men and these events also happen in our society. Men are given more leeway and have the freedom to do anything they want. The question depicts how men and women are differentiated and how men overpower them and control them. Both the novels were written a long time ago, but still the same impact is left on the society as a high percentage of people have only one mindset that women are just needed for house work and give birth to a child, if not they are beaten up badly, they tend to abuse women and are very cruel towards them. This is quite evident in both the novels, in thousand splendid suns Rasheed treats both Mariam and Laila in a cruel manner, he beats them up and especially Mariam because she could not conceive a baby also Rasheed used to make Mariam eat pebbles. Even now these events regularly happen in countries like Afghanistan. "Now you know what your rice tastes like. Now you know what you've given me in this marriage. Bad food, and nothing else."
This is what Rasheed tells to Mariam after she could not give birth to a child, he tries to make Mariam feel bad in all the ways possible and this shows that Mariam's inability to give Rasheed a son will continue to make him more and more bitter towards her. In our society also sometimes women are treated this way, because they seem to be weak and men tend to take advantage of that fact. In Gabriel Garcia's