Today women are privileged with the opportunity to break gender standards and have the ability to play dominant roles in a male dominated society. However, In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, you clearly see the roles of women and how they differ from that of the men. It really puts things into perspective to see societal differences on such a large scale. When you envision a woman 's job what comes to mind? Staying at home cleaning, or taking care of the children? Do you think of them in the workforce, or getting a enormous amount of education? If you envision women staying at home and cleaning then you have envisioned the lives of the women in Umuofia. These women were not given many opportunities and very limited freedoms to what they
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These females had many different chores they had to do on daily basis. One job that the women were required to do was to make the meals. During the beginning part of the story we see an instance where Okonkwo beats his third wife, Ekwefi, for not having his meal finished on time and forcing him to wait for it. Ekwefi had left to go get her hair done and had not made it back in time. “Okonkwo was provoked to justifiable anger by his youngest wife, who went to plait her hair at her friend 's house and did not return early enough to cook the afternoon meal” (29). By not having the meal on time Okonkwo got very angry with her. He had acquired so much anger to the point that he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace and beat her. The women as well had to clean the huts and fetch water in pots which “rested on [their] heads” (43). Not only were the women responsible for these chores but so were some of the children, especially the girls. Most of the children helped their mothers throughout the day doing some of their chores for them. In my cases we as well see boys doing some chores for their mothers. “Ikemefuna came first with the biggest pot, closely followed by Nwoye and his two younger brothers” (43). This shows that not only did the girls help but so did the boys. The women had many jobs to be accomplished and to accomplish them they needed a few extra
These females had many different chores they had to do on daily basis. One job that the women were required to do was to make the meals. During the beginning part of the story we see an instance where Okonkwo beats his third wife, Ekwefi, for not having his meal finished on time and forcing him to wait for it. Ekwefi had left to go get her hair done and had not made it back in time. “Okonkwo was provoked to justifiable anger by his youngest wife, who went to plait her hair at her friend 's house and did not return early enough to cook the afternoon meal” (29). By not having the meal on time Okonkwo got very angry with her. He had acquired so much anger to the point that he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace and beat her. The women as well had to clean the huts and fetch water in pots which “rested on [their] heads” (43). Not only were the women responsible for these chores but so were some of the children, especially the girls. Most of the children helped their mothers throughout the day doing some of their chores for them. In my cases we as well see boys doing some chores for their mothers. “Ikemefuna came first with the biggest pot, closely followed by Nwoye and his two younger brothers” (43). This shows that not only did the girls help but so did the boys. The women had many jobs to be accomplished and to accomplish them they needed a few extra