For centuries, women of Saudi Arabia has earned no respect,they were treated like invisible

and incompetent. Being sex object were only their purpose. Their only role is to produce male
offspring, and to serve their husbands sexually. The life of women were very limited, they are
kept tightly under the rule of their partners. Men are the ruler,the most influential and holds
the perks or being a leader-prestidge ,honor, and responsibility. When it comes to women,
most men still consider them weak. From the fact that royalty are born free,although they are
also treated unworthy just as the lower class women. Through the story of Princess Sultana,
Jean Sasson states the cruel and unjust ways of the male in Saudi Arabia.
We all know that Saudi Arabia was a land of Muslims and Women from their country can wear a
veil in order for them to protect or cover their faces to avoid sexual desires from men. They
strongly believe that the beauty of woman can only be seen by their own husband as well as
their body. Aside from it is being used in covering their body, it also embodies how the truth
are being covered,how their eyes are being blinded by fear,and their mouth being shut by
power.

“Tragically , the women of Saudi Arabia face violence and discrimination in their lives. Women
are not free to choose their husbands, and in many cases, girls as young as eight years old are
married against their will.” Apart from being unvalued in their world, Saudi men want a women
who’s untouched before marrying them, they want young virgins. One thing to consider in a girl
to situate and settle to become bride is once she has her menstruation. After the wedding, they
are become their husbands sex slaves which is mainly the reason why they get wed. If they
found out that their brides are not virgins, they will be punished or worst they will put them to
death. “They could not risk losing their virginity, for they realized the consequences they would
face on their wedding night. Their husbands would return them to their homes and their
fathers would turn them away as well”. As a wife’s responsibility and purpose in their wedding,
after the time of the married, they had to endure their husbands every sexual desires. Some
brides enjoyed this practice because they think there’s no way to escape from their situation so
they just have to embrace it, while others despised it so much that they just kept their eyes
closed and endure the pain in their hearts because it’s against their liking ,most likely these
were the woman who had to deal with their husbands cruelty and unusual sexual brutalities.
Who’s wife wants their husband to marry other woman? That is somehow the reason why they
all had to pretend to enjoy their husbands sexual desires to keep them from marrying another
wife.

The Story of “Sultana” in Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, a non-
fiction literary piece, written by Jean Sasson. It was written in the first person point of view but
basically it is a biography that come up with an autobiography of a woman in the royal family in
Saudi Arabia, A woman who are not able to speak her mind because of her status and position
in life.She has no guts to personally let her voice out and tell her own story. On account of Jean
Sasson as a writer, she was able to narrate Sultana’s autobiography. The princess hid her real
identity and her family as well by using the name Sultana. Sultana’s life experiences come from
journals she kept since she was eleven years old. Through the narrative, “Sultana” says that her
situation has no difference and is similar to the rest Ofof the Saudi women even she came from
the royal family. The

Sultana, is just one of the princesses of the large royal family of Saudi Arabia, the house of
Saud. She uncover the buried lives of every women in their land through narrating her personal
life that her story can be generalized to all Saudi females, whether they came from a nobel clan
or not. In Sultana’s autobiography she imparted a story about social matters, societal issues
focuses mainly in women. Sultana let the truth escape from a Saudi palace which she describe
as great secrecy in their society. She bring in instances from her personal life experiences and
those problems occured in their family that could go down with a new perspective and that
would fit in the point . This is what Sultana means when she speaks about the concealed secrets
in her life. Sultana exposes how she is touched by these problems and through this revelation,
she relates social ideas that make these problems deeper due to the silence.

Sultana as an individual is a very courageous person and has a very strong characterist traits
and a brilliant mind, even though she did not receive an intensive education. She still consider
herself lucky because she wasn’t born during her mother’s generation when females were
banned from education and job opportunities. She is a person who is learning from her own
experiences and observations to try to attain a collective intelligence.

Sultana in Princess doesn’t look forward for change only for herself or only in the individual or
to a small circle. She also has global expectations with a myriad hope for everyone. To
guarantee women’s rights not just in Saudi Arabia but in the whole world. Sultana is looking
forward to aspirations that are beyond the individual’s capacity to effect in the social range,
because there is no harm in hoping and trying. She is adhering her personal life with the local
one and looking forward to the universal bond that is not impossible to happen as long as there
is emphathy with others along with strong grasp to hope.

Sultana is a figure of an empowered woman not because she is a heroine ,but an individual who
knows the truth and fights for it. Her great characteristic has been shaped through her
bittersweet experiences. She witnessed cruelty and inhumane deeds of the rulers who are
actually came from her own family. It serves as an eye-opener to the readers for them to see
what is really happening inside a fascinating palace or house of royalties on how their male
heads use their daughters as exchange to their wealth and power. Assuming that it doesn’t just
reflect only for the Saudi Arabian women ,but it reflects the reality generally for all the woman
who are being sexually deprived by using Sultana’s own perspective in showing these instances
in the society. This story of Sultana, can contribute with the search for equality and peace, and
time will come that women can open freedom to gain free personhood. As time passes
by,women not just only from Saudi Arabia but also from other countries will finally achieve
liberty, fight for their rights and what they really deserve, and will able to set their own goals
without any men stopping them.