To commence, in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the village of Umuofia is conceived by a particular Igbo culture. This focuses on how the Igbo society exchanges many rituals and customs within their environment. Not just that, but this novel was written in the 1950’s, which considers to be post-colonial. The women are considered to be a main target when something devastating occurs within the Igbo tribe, but also women intend to have positive attributes. It’s primary gender role speculates on how feminine restores a lack of support and inequality. Therefore, women are treated with certain circumstances, used as property, and Achebe’s depiction of value and intention of them.
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For instance, women have no privilege when it comes to the Igbo society, because women are considered weak and unhelpful. This lack of support that the women have signifies how they have to be a housemaid, and only act as a house support rather than a worker. When it states: “the law of Umuofia is that of a woman runs away from her husband her bride-price is returned”(Achebe 92). This extract indicates how women are treated with no respect, and especially are treated like objects that intend to have no values. It makes the women feel very frivolous within themselves knowing that their worth a price that gets traded from men to other men. The definition of a women is how they are viewed as a useful property, in order to proclaim the weak side of the women as a feminist perspective. In addition, women are mistreated and abused by their own husband, which represents the women as an essential factor of being indefinite. In other words, women are determined to be fine when their husband has more than one wife, and this signifies how women could be interpreted to seem as unsympathetic. For example, “if any one of you prefers to be a women, let him follow Nwoye now while I am alive so that I can curse him”(Achebe 172). This quote signifies how the protagonist, Okonkwo, is describing the women in a way where it intends to speculate the traditions of the feminine perspective. Women are …show more content…
He has a purpose when it comes to writing, which makes him have the women seen as a feminine perspective, with making the plot of the story post colonial. Also, Achebe's aim of women was that to have a weaker value of the story plot, and led feminine tasks be structured individually. Additionally, Achebe makes the women seem as unnecessary, but in that case Achebe uses positive aspects to show how women deprive more into family than masculine tasks. Therefore, the way Achebe conveyed the Igbo society with women was that by women having weaker qualities in the Igbo society it makes their intentions seem radical and impervious. In fact, when Achebe states, “to show affection was a sign of weakness; the only thing worth demonstrating was strength”(Achebe 28). This quote means that Achebe is trying to demonstrate how since women show affection they are considered undervalued and have lower standards, which seeks as inequality within a gender role. The way Achebe apprehends the reader is by knowing how gender roles, such as women always have to deal with disparity, and have no values or control within a
Throughout the novel, women are considered to have certain state …show more content…
For instance, women have no privilege when it comes to the Igbo society, because women are considered weak and unhelpful. This lack of support that the women have signifies how they have to be a housemaid, and only act as a house support rather than a worker. When it states: “the law of Umuofia is that of a woman runs away from her husband her bride-price is returned”(Achebe 92). This extract indicates how women are treated with no respect, and especially are treated like objects that intend to have no values. It makes the women feel very frivolous within themselves knowing that their worth a price that gets traded from men to other men. The definition of a women is how they are viewed as a useful property, in order to proclaim the weak side of the women as a feminist perspective. In addition, women are mistreated and abused by their own husband, which represents the women as an essential factor of being indefinite. In other words, women are determined to be fine when their husband has more than one wife, and this signifies how women could be interpreted to seem as unsympathetic. For example, “if any one of you prefers to be a women, let him follow Nwoye now while I am alive so that I can curse him”(Achebe 172). This quote signifies how the protagonist, Okonkwo, is describing the women in a way where it intends to speculate the traditions of the feminine perspective. Women are …show more content…
He has a purpose when it comes to writing, which makes him have the women seen as a feminine perspective, with making the plot of the story post colonial. Also, Achebe's aim of women was that to have a weaker value of the story plot, and led feminine tasks be structured individually. Additionally, Achebe makes the women seem as unnecessary, but in that case Achebe uses positive aspects to show how women deprive more into family than masculine tasks. Therefore, the way Achebe conveyed the Igbo society with women was that by women having weaker qualities in the Igbo society it makes their intentions seem radical and impervious. In fact, when Achebe states, “to show affection was a sign of weakness; the only thing worth demonstrating was strength”(Achebe 28). This quote means that Achebe is trying to demonstrate how since women show affection they are considered undervalued and have lower standards, which seeks as inequality within a gender role. The way Achebe apprehends the reader is by knowing how gender roles, such as women always have to deal with disparity, and have no values or control within a