A Critical Analysis of the Women Objectification in the Silence of the Girls

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16950928

Abstract

This paper investigates Physical objectification of women is a social issue within all the developed and underdeveloped societies of the world as a whole, and they play various roles in society, which is multidimensional yet still seen as weak compared to the men. The women's objectification issue has continued to be a subject of research by different scholars in different parts of the world. In this study, novel The Silence of the Girls (2018) written by Pat Barker with the aim of highlighting inequalities and differences existing of the Trojan War. Moreover, it also explored how the same inequalities and injustices affected downtrodden women of the war. Objectification of a woman is one of those discriminations that women go through in a culture of society. This paper examines the objectification of women using the perspectives of female characters that have been chosen from the novel The Silence of the Girls (2018). In this paper, the theoretical frameworks of Martha Nussbaum is used to deduce the results of this study. The research results depict that female characters are subjected to objectification and act as objects that are acted upon by males in a male-dominated strata, in the war.

Keywords; Objectification, Women, Inequalities, Male-domination, War, Discrimination