Essay: Things Fall Apart, gender roles. _ In the book, Things Fall Apart gender plays a very important role. In Umofia, one of the nine villages, gender is the most important component in the lives of the people. Men are always superior to women in all aspects. Men are the ones that do all the hard work. Women are only allowed to have one husband, but men are allowed to have many wives. They're many other restrictions and roles based on gender in the village. _One character in the book that is most…
In Chinua Achebe’s book Things Fall Apart the main character Okonkwo lives a successful life in the African society despite the many challenges he goes through. Near the end of the book, it tells of white missionaries who came and how they affected all that Okonkwo had worked so hard for. Even though they are not part of the major plotline, gender roles can be found abundantly throughout the book. In Things Fall Apart gender roles are a large part of the function of society, both in the family and…
If you are a woman, you would not want to live in Igbo society. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, he describes a society where men have more power than women. The main character, Okonkwo, has many conflicts regarding his masculinity. He tries to be an excessively masculine figure in a society that has more of a balance between masculinity and femininity. Achebe promotes many stereotypes about masculine and feminine traits in his novel. Okonkwo is a hyper-masculine character who shows…