"Women belong to men, and a man's a man even if he's decrepit." Discuss Mahjoub's statement with regards to season of Migration to the North

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With the power of thought, the narrator could have believed that Hosna Bint Mahmoud, a woman in her thirties, could have overpowered an old man, but due to his conditioning as a member of a tremendously patriarchal society, he pictures the worst and imagines Hosna Bint Mahmoud in a vulnerable position, performing a most feeble action that is crying...
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This subtly shows the reader that a woman is nothing without a man, and supports the notion that a woman can only be complete once they have a husband; as Hosna Bint Mahmoud, only gains her full title, as opposed to "She" when she is referred to in the same context as her dead husband...
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