Maliha Aqueel, author of “‘Honour’ killings, hypocrisy and the moral policing reserved only for women” engages in a debate pertaining to the issue of honor killings. Aqueel forms a sound argument condemning immoral attacks and praising Qandeel Baloch, a victim of honor killings, by building up ethos, appealing to the audience through logos, and creating an exigence for this sensitive topic. The article begins with an introductory statement: “Qandeel Baloch was failed by Pakistan society at every step. The same nation that topped Google searches for pornography strangles women like her to death” (1). Aqueel engages the audience in the text by incorporating a direct attack at hypocrites, foreshadowed by the title of the article. Aqueel speaks …show more content…
She adds in the last paragraph that women have to stand up for themselves, for each other and for justice (3). Aqueel supports her strong exigence with an appeal to pathos. Aqueel explains how Qandeel Baloch was married off young to an abusive partner. Qandeel sought freedom by divorcing him, but it ended in another tragedy- loss of custody of her son, due to limited women’s rights. When Qandeel became financially independent and supported her family, her brother drugged and strangled her for not following society’s norms. Aqueel states, “she was a personal hero of mine” (3). By creating a biography of Qandeel’s life, Aqueel is able to explain the hardships Qandeel battled and is able to evoke emotion out of the …show more content…
For example, right away, Aqueel questions the honor in honor killings by quoting it in her title and elsewhere in the text. Aqueel quotes it because she feels the two words are juxtaposed. Aqueel shows her negativity on honor killings by calling them “cold-blooded murders” (3). She refers to Qandeel Baloch with positivity and calls her an inspiration, defiant, working-class girl with “extraordinary courage” (2), and a hero. Additionally, Aqueel phrases that society failed Qandeel, and not the other way around, multiple times. This is the opposite of what Qandeel’s brother and others thought of her: a disgrace. Through these words and phrases, Aqueel creates an admiring tone and a positive connotation of
In a nation brimming with discrimination, violence and fear, a multitudinous number of hearts will become malevolent and unemotional. However, people will rebel. In the eye-opening novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini, the country of Afghanistan is exposed to possess cruel, treacherous and sexist law and people. The women are classified as something lower than human, and men have the jurisdiction over the women. At the same time, the most horrible treatment can bring out some of the best traits in victims, such as consideration, boldness, and protectiveness. Although, living in an inconsiderate world, women can still carry aspiration and benevolence. Mariam and Laila (the main characters of A Thousand Splendid Suns) are able to retain their consideration, boldness and protectiveness, as sufferers in their atrocious world.
Author Naheed Mustafa, who is a Canadian born Muslim woman, writes a piece of literature that relates to her faith. In her article she is describing to the audience her own personal story by using a first point of view. The article titles as “My Body is My Own Business,” that is a part of a novel that’s from The Globe and Mail which was written in 1993. Its about her reasons of wearing the "Hijab", although she is not required to wear one, she does so anyway to strengthen herself. The article is at a glance effective as the author calls for equality upon women in general, and ineffective at another glance because the article lacks logos and ethos, and supports her argument by relying on one holy book.
It is difficult to realize the harsh standards and obligations imposed upon women of different cultures. It is especially disappointing to note that women whom may seek to relieve themselves of such discriminatory practices, face little to no government support in terms of fighting inequality. Such as distinguished in text The War Against Feminism, women of Algeria must fight against patriarchal and incredibly sexist political movements, such as the “Islamic Salvation Front,” which although was banned, had won an election and the promotion of their platform’s ideas despite their notions consisting of extreme patriarchal views and their actual assassinations of individuals not compliant with their beliefs. I also strongly agreed with the United Nations decision to aid individuals from fear of the Taliban, in their stating of refusing to continue aid to Afghanistan if intense cruel practices were to continue. The interference of other government agencies in helping to promote the end of cruelty, such as was occurring by the Taliban, act as great movement of defiance against
“Friend by Day, Enemy by Night” shares an in depth look into the lives of the Kohistanis who live in Thull, Pakistan. The author of the text, Lincoln Keiser, goes into great depth in explaining the life of these people before and after mar dushmani. Mar dushmani can be directly translated as “death enmity.” This social relationship between the Kohistanis causes for many problems. As a general principle death enmity allows men to retaliate whenever another man wrongs them, though the act of revenge itself should not exceed the original wrong. The example stated in the book is, “a blow should answer a blow and a death answer a death.” For such offenses as attacks on men through their wives, sisters, and daughters retaliation usually occurs in deadly violence. Killing the offender is considered the most appropriate response. Although violence usually takes place during retaliation, it is not the only way to handle it.
The narrator and her husband’s interactions shows her as submissive in terms of gender equality. Although John perceives the narrator as a child with no volunteer ideas, it is shown in her journal that this theory is not valid because she was shaped to comply by the society and the norm. The narrator’s inferiority negatively impacts her mental and physical health to the point she had to rip off the wallpaper to break free. Nevertheless, when read critically, the story also unveil the women’s suffrage movement and its struggle. Since this story was published, women are slowly breaking away from men’s suppression and gaining more rights. In short, society and culture define gender roles; however, the changing economic, social, and education environment open up a new path for women. Nowadays, women are given the chance to prove themselves and can act beyond their gender roles. However, the equality between genders has not been achieved yet. Therefore, women should continue to fight for their rights and freedoms until they are treated with respect and enjoy
The story of “Killings” by Andre Dubus looked into the themes of crime, revenge and morality. The crime committed in the story depicted the father’s love for his son and the desire to avenge his son’s death. However, his own crime led to his own destruction as he was faced with questions of morality. The character found himself in a difficult position after taking his revenge. He failed to anticipate the guilt associated with the crime he committed. Feelings of anger and righteousness are illustrated by the character throughout the story.
I am going to analyze this text using the intrinsic and feminist literary theory analysis. With the intrinsic analysis, I will brood mostly on the style and characterization of the text. According to Eaglestone, 2009, intrinsic analysis is a look into the text for meaning and understanding, assuming it has no connection, whatsoever, to the outside world. “Style is said to be the way one writes as opposed to what one writes about and is that voice that your readers hear when they read your work” (Wiehardt, n.d). The text uses mostly colors, poems and songs to deliver its messages. The main characters in the...
... However, through the narrators partial freedom she more importantly finds a new compassionate/humane path on her journey to womanhood. Also, this new path in itself acts as a sort of self-healing for the grief experienced by the narrator. Though only partial freedom was found and cultural boundaries were not shattered, simply battered, the narrator’s path was much preferable to that of her sisters (those who conformed to cultural boundaries).
...ture these characters in such a vivid way that these characters leave an imprint on the minds of those who read it. I appreciate the work that went into the short story because it gives insight on how a person, whether male or female, thinks. It also shows how societies’ perspective on a group of people could take a negative turn and leave one damaged physically and mentally. It is clear now that violence does not erupt out of nowhere, but is something that is built and tampered with.
Crimes of honor are defined as crimes committed against a person that has ‘brought shame’ upon his family. These honor killings are usually, if not most of the time, targeted towards women. Women have been raped, tortured, and even killed for refusing to marry someone the family has chosen, committing what the family would define as adultery, or for simply being in a relationship with a person who displeases the relatives. Why are women being constantly targeted in these crimes and where are the laws protecting them? Honor killings are said to be a matter of the past, however it will shock you to find out that they are very well hidden and are affecting women on a worldwide horizon.
Commonly referred to as the ‘honour killings’ of the Shafia family is a murder plot that resulted in the death of three young female teenagers and their aunt (Maclean’s 2017). The murder was perpetrated by Mohammad Shafia, his wife and their oldest son. The three teenage sisters were killed due to their rebellion against their family’s traditions. The fourth victim was Rona Mohammad, who was referred to a collateral damage by the offenders (Maclean’s 2017). The police investigation lead to the three offenders all being found guilty on four counts of murder in the first degree (Chung and Dimanno 2012). The two theories this essay will discuss to explain why these murders occurred are one of Sykes and Matza’s techniques of neutralization, the denial of the victim, and the theory of Psychopathy (Broll 2017). The theories illustrate how Mohammad’s mentality, beliefs, and behaviour became factors that resulted in the crime. This essay will demonstrate how Mohammad Shafia’s corrupt notions of honour lead to one of Sykes and Matza’s techniques of neutralization and how his psychopathic personality indicative of his lack of guilt, aggressive behaviour and failure to conform to societal norms resulted in the heinous Shafia family murders.
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In a male dominated society women in Pakistan are in lower position than men, they are always on the periphery, and are subordinated to men and are in debased positions both within the house and outside the house. Alam (2011) shows by her study that women’s unequal positions contrasted with men make them weaker both out in the open and private circles. They are mostly stayed in underestimated positions. Our Lady of Alice Bhatti(2012) revolves around the life of a Christian nurse Alice Bhatti who is just out of jail and looking to start her life afresh. Hanif has chosen to view Pakistan through the eyes of a Christian woman.
Violence. Just mentioning the word conjures up many images of assault, abuse, and even murder. Violence is a broad subject with many categories. Some types of violence are terrorist violence and domestic violence. Violence can arise from many different sources; these sources whether biological, cultural, and social all can evoke violent behavior. All cultures experience some sort of violence, and this paper considers violence as a cultural phenomenon across a range of various settings. Violence plays a part in both Islamic and Indian cultures according to the articles “Understanding Islam” and “Rising Dowry Deaths” by Kenneth Jost and Amanda Hitchcock, respectively. From an anthropological perspective, violence emphasizes concerns of meaning, representation and symbolism.
Violence against women appeared from a long time ago and happened in every country. It caused pain in both mental and physical for women. There were so many people trying to stop this problem but it was still not completely fixed. There are many reasons that lead to this issue all over the world. After many surveys and investigations, we realized that the main reason is Discrimination and Unequal power. Some legends and stories in the past made people think men’s role is more important than women’s role in society. And because men are stronger, more active than women so they can do more work. This also makes people think men deserve more rights than women. They soon forced on human’s mind that men are also...