In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the Ibo culture is known for their power and extreme faith of their religion. Manliness is an honorable trait, throughout the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo, the protagonist, lives in a world where showing emotion is considered weak. His anger leads him to physically abuse his three wives. In Umuofia the strongest village is the Igbo culture and it's where this story takes place. In Things Fall Apart, many social groups are marginalized and the main social group excluded from the texts were women mainly consisting of physical abuse,lack of power, and considered as objects and trophies.
Women have always been thought of as weak in the past, in the story Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe shows how women are physically abused. The author of this book once said “See other human beings as human beings” because Okonkwo’s first mistake is that he beats his youngest wife, Ojiugo,during the week of peace a week where all the violence is forbidden. She left her hut to get her hair braided without having cooked dinner. Not only …show more content…
The role of women in Africa during the colonial times did not consist of being powerful, infact they lacked in power. The word Agbala meant that a man had no titles or was weak and considered a “Woman”.Therefore in the Igbo culture, women are considered weaker than the men and therefore it is an insult to men. Unlike women, men rule over their families, especially their wives. Women were use to a more humble position than men, often living in fear of their husbands.Women are not to do anything that they are not told, no woman ever saw the men's hut no woman ever asked questions about the most powerful cult in the clan. Men of the Igbo culture striped women of their power. The book was very lenient towards men not really caring whether women had a saying in any of the tribe meeting or any big event in the
Women have always been thought of as weak in the past, in the story Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe shows how women are physically abused. The author of this book once said “See other human beings as human beings” because Okonkwo’s first mistake is that he beats his youngest wife, Ojiugo,during the week of peace a week where all the violence is forbidden. She left her hut to get her hair braided without having cooked dinner. Not only …show more content…
The role of women in Africa during the colonial times did not consist of being powerful, infact they lacked in power. The word Agbala meant that a man had no titles or was weak and considered a “Woman”.Therefore in the Igbo culture, women are considered weaker than the men and therefore it is an insult to men. Unlike women, men rule over their families, especially their wives. Women were use to a more humble position than men, often living in fear of their husbands.Women are not to do anything that they are not told, no woman ever saw the men's hut no woman ever asked questions about the most powerful cult in the clan. Men of the Igbo culture striped women of their power. The book was very lenient towards men not really caring whether women had a saying in any of the tribe meeting or any big event in the