which makes people especially landlords greedy. Their greediness makes them be cruel people who will do everything cruel and illogical in order to get or to
maintain wealth or lands. Moreover, feudalism in Pakistan in the 20
th
century made landlords create a tradition which placed women in an unpleasant
experience such Holy Woman. Besides, they fraudly defended that they performed Islamic’s view. Hence, feudalism did not only harm peasant but also
women. In other words, Qaisra does not only criticise greediness, malice and women destruction in feudalism but also the hypocrite of feudalist in Pakistan.
5. Pride
Pride is another thing Qaisra criticises in this novel. Most characters in this novel have high pride. However their prides take them into an unpleasant
experience, not only for them but also for their surrounding. Zarri Bano is the main character who is proud of her family, of her family’s wealth and of her
family’s clan. Besides, her pride does not permit anyone to insult her. Those are reasons for her to do what his father’s request. Because of her pride she does not
want to let it degrade. She agrees to be a Holy Woman otherwise her family is going to lose his wealth.
Kaniz, is also the Qaisra’s means to criticise pride. She cannot accept the fact that she was the second option. Because of her pride as a woman, she turns a
lot after being the chaudarani. She keeps a distance among her employee. She looks down on lower class. Moreover, her pride, especially as a chaudarani,
makes she hate Fatima a lot. She declines her son’s idea of marrying Fatima’s daughter. Because of that reason, Khawar leaves his mother. As the result, Kaniz
herself feels wretched for not seeing her son. Kaniz’s pride has made her son and her in suffering.
Silly action is also done by Firdaus because of her pride. She acts impolite to an elder, Kaniz who bends on her knee to ask Firdaus marries her son- Khawar.
This impolite action does not only make Kaniz depressed but also causes Firdaus to feel terrible sorry for her action and she is ignored by Khawar- man she loves.
By using those characters Qaistra criticises pride which unconsciously will take people into unpleasant experiences. People sometimes forget love and
humanity because of their high prides. Pride they have put them and people around them in unpleasant experiences.
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION
In the
novel The Holy Woman, Qaisra represents Pakistani society by
using characters. By using characters to represent Pakistani society, Qaisra offers her criticism toward Pakistani society. There are three problems discussed in this
thesis. They are, the characteristic of major characters, the society in Pakistan represented by major characters and, the last, the criticism of Qaisra toward
society in Pakistan. In analysing the novel The Holy Woman, the writer found out ten major
characters representing Pakistani society. They are Zarri Bano, Habib, Shahzada, Siraj Din, Fatima, Firdaus, Kaniz, Sikander, Khawar and Ruby. Each of them
represents social institutions in Pakistan in the 20
th
century. Most female characters have the same characteristic and so do male
characters. Shahzada, Zarri Bano and Ruby are characterised as women from higher class who struggle in living under the men’s opression in their family life
while Fatima and Firdaus struggle to get betterment since they come from lower class. Another female character, Kaniz, is characterised as a selfish, arrogant and
snobbish woman. Her pride and her obsession on class or status make her so malicious.
Habib and Siraj Din are characterised as men who possess thousand acres of land. They are landlords who care about their lands and peasants’ prosperity, in
contrast, they opress women in their family to fulfill their desires. Khawar and PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Sikander are charcacterized differently from Habib and Siraj Din. They, as youths, are characterised as men who are unable to do anything to save their beloved
person from discrimination though they are educated, rich and from higher class. Those characters represent the society in Pakistan in the 20
th
century. Zarri Bano, Shahzada and other female characters depict the female opression in
patriarchy as occured in the 20
th
century in Pakistan. Moreover, Shahzada and Zarri Bano also portray the opression of high class women in Pakistan which was
more rigid than opression of women from lower class was. However, those female characters are also representations of women in Pakistan in breaking the
patriarchy. Habib and Siraj Din are not only the representations of men domination in Pakistan but also the representations of feudalist in Pakistan. They,
as landlords, control over the entire area of that village. They are also besotted with their lands. Besides representing patriarchy and feudalist, Habib and Siraj
Din also portray the realisation of strict tradition based on Islam. In contrast, youth characters like Sikander, Ruby, Firdaus, Zarri Bano and Khawar are the
representations of young people in Pakistan who became the victims of the realisation of rigid tradition. Religion and tradition limit young people in
expressing themselves. They cannot express their loves to person they love even in grief.
Another social institution represented in this novel is marriage arrangement. Most parent characters in this novel represent how parents arrange
their children marriage. Fatima, Kaniz, Habib and Siraj Din try to marry their children to partners they like by considering caste, wealth and social standing. On
