Women’s are sold into marriage to men five times their age, which their father or oldest brother chose for them. In Saudi Arabia there is very little women rights. Women are mostly depending on men.


Women as a lower class in society

The story about Sultana’s life showed us how women are treated as lower class than men in Saudi Arabia and in myth. We get a true sense of how little has changed for women in Saudi Arabia in over a thousand years due to a deep fear of change by the religious/political leaders. In one of the wealthiest lands on Earth it is primitively still a man's world - a world of arrogance, domination, ego and ignorance.
Princess Sultana, because she is a woman she is considered worthless-a slave to the whims of her male master. She doesn’t have the freedom to speak, the freedom to work, the freedom to think…. the women are like a virtual prisoners in a country that does not recognize women's rights

Connection to the book (see page 22-23)
"By treating women as slaves, as property, men have made themselves as unhappy as the women they rule, and have made love and true companionship unattainable to both sexes." page 22-23.