There are a large number of problems in our society, dating back as far as the 1800s to the present day. The struggles of women today are presented in Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott." The vast majority of women are held back by society's critical thinking. Not only in third world countries like Pakistan, India or Afghanistan, but also in first world countries, like America. Society should stop oppressing women based on how they should dress, their freedom and their love relationships in these countries and around the world. These women are treated just like the Lady of Shalott, who was placed in an excluded tower, far from human interaction. . Furthermore, he could not look out the window at life passing by, but he could see through “a clear, reflecting mirror, towering in Camelot” (Tennyson, 45-50). This mirror showed her what she could never have; freedom. Freedom is exactly what most women in these countries, Pakistan, India or Afghanistan, cannot achieve. In the book A Thousand Splendid Suns, women in these countries are often forced to wear the burqa or hijab. These traditional covers are supposed to keep these women safe. Just as the lady of the tower of Shalott kept her safe but secluded; so secluded that no one "saw her waving her hand[,] or at the window saw her standing" (Tennyson, 23-25). In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Rasheed often told both of his wives to always keep themselves covered with the burqa because he didn't want other men to leer at his property. In that society, women are told to cover themselves from head to toe. This is because their beauty is a distraction to men and could lead them to do the wrong “action”. This is not fair, society should not make women feel like they are a distraction or force them to wear something they don't want to wear. Society should consider if these women dress respectively, then it should be so