Silly Questions: Mrs Shandy Rvolting.

Silly Questions:
Mrs. Shandy Revolting

By
Mai Magdi & Walaa Yosry

Women’s silly and serious questions (as different from men’s) are recurrent in all ages. From the eighteenth century till now some women have been posing these questions. In the eighteenth century women were not highly educated, and that is why they might be justified .Yet now in spite of the huge number of women emancipation movements and the “vindicated” rights of women, darkness still covers some of women’s minds. Some of their poor, silly questions are:

Do you like your wife to be like Britney Spears or Haifaa Wahby?

They are just as silly as Mrs. Shandy’s question interrupting the moments of love:

“Have you not forgotten to wind up the clock?”

Other girls also think superficially of other questions such as:

What kind of car should my husband have?

(Or why should not we have birds on the roof nowadays?)

Theses are similar to Mrs. Shandy’s question at the end of the novel:
“What is all this story about?” reflecting her stupidity all throughout.

On the other hand, many women have a wide scope of life and a logical thinking which are projected in their questions such as:

What do you think of women’s work?
Do you like your wife to be a prime minister?

In every society we have a “Mrs. Shandy” whom we must try to change and mend, as women, wives, mothers, sisters and friends, represent the backbone of our society.