Anna Comnena In Anna Of Byzantium

Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 to in Mingora, Pakistan. As a child, she attended a school that her father ran and loved learning and education. In her society, most families didn’t find a need to send girls to school. In Pakistan, girls were married off at a young age and were only responsible for cooking and cleaning. Malala was considered luckier than most other girls there, because she got the chance to go to school and her family didn’t view women lesser to men.

In 2007, the Taliban, a terrorist group started to take over the Swat Valley, the province in which Mingora was located. The Taliban prohibited girls from attending school and also banned cultural activities like dancing and singing. The Taliban created strict, discriminatory laws. The consequences for breaking these laws were often public beatings or death. The

Both Anna and Malala were looked down upon by some others because they were female. In Anna of Byzantium, the foreign ambassadors think that Anna isn’t worthy of the throne since she isn’t male. Many others think that John, the first male child of the emperor should be heir since he is male. The Taliban thought that women didn’t need education and were inferior to men. They enforced unjust laws against everyone, especially women and girls like Malala. Both Malala and Anna didn’t give up because of the views of others. They both were stubborn for what they thought was right. Malala believed in getting an education and Anna believed that she should be heir to the throne as promised, no matter her gender. They both fought for their beliefs. Both of them also loved education and are very intelligent. However, Malala was peaceful while Anna wasn’t. Malala made peaceful speeches and blogs and spoke to interviewers. On the other hand, Anna wanted to kill her brother John to get what she wanted. Anna was also very prideful, while Malala was very caring toward