How Are Women Oppressed In A Thousand Splendid Suns

All Women are Forced to Endure

All women are forced to endure. Throughout their lives, women go through pain and suffering.

Come has nary a time where someone has even batted an eyelid to look at the injustice, the

patriarchy that prevails in the world. This thesis intends to prove how women are oppressed

throughout their lives and how there exists a preconceived opinion about it being ‘the way of

life’. No one ever asks why it’s men who run big companies while women are offered menial

jobs like that of a receptionist. No one ever asks why it’s usually women who are featured in

advertisements relating to household work. No one has ever paid attention to the sexism that

prevails even in the constitution of this very nation where it states that the marriageable age

Maybe it’s time to start doubting the sanctity of

this society because even the minutest things have prejudices.

In Khaled Hosseini’s ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’, a progression of

Mariam’s life is seen from a young misunderstood girl to a strong woman who was brave

enough to sacrifice her own life for someone else’s good. One thing that persistently occurs is

that men decide what is to be done with her. In other words, men shaped up Mariam’s life. Jalil,

whom Mariam looked up to, whom she idolized, in whom she saw no wrong, decided to get