Men's Roles In A Thousand Splendid Suns

In the beginning of the 1990s the Taliban, an Islamic group, ruled Afghanistan. The Taliban began to be formed around the 1960s then Afghanistan was ruled by this group people for at least six years. Since they began to rule, the Afghanistan society changed. The country had many deaths, the Taliban were blamed for the wave of suicide bombings and other attacks in Afghanistan. The conflicts in the country were not only the bombing but there was inequality between men and women. Many things changed for every individual leaving in Afghanistan. Due to the Taliban ruling Afghanistan, gender equality became a conflict especially to women because they had fewer opportunities and fewer rights. The Taliban group were the cause of these injustices in

Ever since the Taliban were introduced, many women in Afghanistan have been considering weaker and inferior to men. For example, the judge in A Thousand splendid Suns states, “God has made us differently, you women and us men. Our brains are different. You are not able to think like we can. Western doctors and their science have proven this. This is why we require only one male witness but two female ones” (Hosseini 324). This illustrates that women are considered inferior to men because they are “differently.” In A Thousand Splendid Suns uses Mariam in the court to illustrate that in Afghanistan women are treated differently and have different rights than men. Mariam had committed a crime and her consequence was sentenced to death, she was denied the freedom of speech, she couldn’t say she did it to defend Laila because she was a woman. The man’s word was always taken over the woman in disputes, and Mariam's beatings by Rasheed were considered a legal right in Afghanistan. Man in Afghanistan has always had the right to abuse of women and wouldn’t be considered a crime. Women are denied the right to speak for their selves and every day they have to