Reflection #4 The Veiled Threat

This essay is about the life of women in Iran, a country where they don’t have any rights. Men totally rule their lives and every time they make an attempt to rise and gain their respect they are forced down to nothingness. But they never lost faith in the belief that some day Iran will be a country of justice.

What the mainly expresses in this essay is that every time men tries to make women invisible and powerless, they actually made them more visible and powerful. By trying to control women’s lives, men gave them a powerful weapon: every private act or gesture in defiance of official rules is now a strong political statement. This means that while government completely controls women’s life men’s life is also affected since they interact with each other. Even men who initially supported the revolution were affected.

The paragraphs 27 to 30 of this essay are important to this essay because they because of a man who came to the power started to give women some rights like, for example he demanded for women to stop using their veils. Later they started to get many other rights and women where working in every field except clergy. But they started to be accused of betraying their culture and their tradition and after this they started to fall again. Even though they where exempt of their rights gain they made themselves visible to the world in other ways.

These paragraphs are important because they show one of the time when Iranian women raised and fell for their rights and even though they had some support it wasn’t enough. But they never stopped fighting they know that they deserve to be free and will fight for it no matter what happens.