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Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen text use narrative
voice
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In both A Thousand Splendid Suns and Tess d’Urbeville, both Hardy and Hosseini
present the roles of a women and the life of suffering in which they are expected to fulfill
through narrative voice
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Both Hardy and Hosseini chose to use a limited omniscient narrator to reflect the silencing of
women in the society’s they depict in their novels, this is evident in the lack of thoughts expressed
by the men in the novel displaying not only the ignorance of men but their views towards women
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” Alec’s false accusations on Tess and his ability to play ‘the victim’ illustrate the unequal society
Tess lives in as men are able to dominate themselves physically and mentally over a women
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Rasheed, like Alec exploits the women in the
story in order to fulfill their own sexual desires but continue to act as if the women are of no use to
them and bring nothing into their lives
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Bad
food, and nothing else”
Hardy injects his own authorial voice into the novel which make his views on the treatment of Tess
explicit
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In Tess d’Urbeville, this is
emphasised through Hardy’s comment on “Where was Tess’s guardian angel?” Through this we
can explore how Hardy justifies Tess’s actions and victimises her through her lack of aid from her
“guardian angels” positioning Hardy against the social conventions which deemed women as the
perpetrator of crimes against women; such as rape were deemed as crimes instigated by women
themselves
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” Hosseini,
through this phrase, exposes the caged life women in Afghanistan experience, he critiques the Afghan
expectation for women to suffer in silence where it is expected of women to silently endure the pain
and lack of freedom they receive
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In both A Thousand Splendid Suns and Tess the d’Urbervilles, the views of society are presented
throughout the narrative to demonstrate the limitations faced by the women and the judgement they
receive when they stray from what is socially acceptable
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She knew what their whispers were about
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The lack of support and continuous
whispering reinforces the idea of women enduring their hardships similar to A Thousand Splendid
Suns where Mariam is just viewed as a harami and nothing more, she being married off to a widower
heightens her position in society and how she is unwanted from her family
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Hardy presents Tess as an example of this shame and
guilt women go through due to the way in which society presents these women as ‘outcasts
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In a similar fashion,
Hardy presents the different voices of the rich and poor by presenting different dialects throughout
the narrative

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