How Are Women Portrayed In Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
“Women are taught to mother, while men are conditioned to dominate and control.” This book is about the story of a man, Okonkwo, who is a member in the Igbo community. You gain an insight on the life of their village as well as the certain roles in their society. In Things Fall Apart, the women are portrayed to do the stereotypical aspects of womanhood and men are portrayed to do the expected duties of men.
First of all, with the female characters, they are portrayed to do womanly duties. These are things like bearing children, cooking, staying at home to care of the children and to clean up the house. They are to submit to their husbands absolutely. In Reading As A Woman: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart And Feminist Criticism by Linda Strong-Leek, she explains the way women are viewed in this society: “In Things Fall Apart (1969), women are viewed mainly as child bearers and help mates for their husbands. Due to the phallocentric notion …show more content…
They would most likely be more caring and may slowly accept that women can be equals. According to the author of Literary Analysis of Things Fall Apart: “ Because of Okonkwo 's objection to everything feminine, he has a rocky relationship with his father. Throughout the novel, Okonkwo refers to his father, Unoka, as an "agbala." Unoka, was extremely artistic musically gifted, coward-like, and in great debt. These are all the things Okonkwo related to being feminine. All of the hate for his father 's weaknesses led him to be cruel to the true feminine species”. If he were to be here now, he may not have had that strong resent for his father because he wouldn’t have to prove himself to be the society 's views of a man. His choices and decisions would have been extremely different had believed in our modern
“Women are taught to mother, while men are conditioned to dominate and control.” This book is about the story of a man, Okonkwo, who is a member in the Igbo community. You gain an insight on the life of their village as well as the certain roles in their society. In Things Fall Apart, the women are portrayed to do the stereotypical aspects of womanhood and men are portrayed to do the expected duties of men.
First of all, with the female characters, they are portrayed to do womanly duties. These are things like bearing children, cooking, staying at home to care of the children and to clean up the house. They are to submit to their husbands absolutely. In Reading As A Woman: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart And Feminist Criticism by Linda Strong-Leek, she explains the way women are viewed in this society: “In Things Fall Apart (1969), women are viewed mainly as child bearers and help mates for their husbands. Due to the phallocentric notion …show more content…
They would most likely be more caring and may slowly accept that women can be equals. According to the author of Literary Analysis of Things Fall Apart: “ Because of Okonkwo 's objection to everything feminine, he has a rocky relationship with his father. Throughout the novel, Okonkwo refers to his father, Unoka, as an "agbala." Unoka, was extremely artistic musically gifted, coward-like, and in great debt. These are all the things Okonkwo related to being feminine. All of the hate for his father 's weaknesses led him to be cruel to the true feminine species”. If he were to be here now, he may not have had that strong resent for his father because he wouldn’t have to prove himself to be the society 's views of a man. His choices and decisions would have been extremely different had believed in our modern