Misogynistic Attitude Towards Women In The Ibo Society

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TS: In the Ibo society, the men express a misogynistic attitude toward women through derogatory language.
CD: For instance, by killing a clansmen, “Okonkwo had committed the female [crime], because it had been inadvertent” (105).
CM: The Ibo society counts Okonkwo’s felony as a female crime for it is unintentional and innocent which indicates that women are passive as to men are aggressive.
CM: In addition, seeing that men are aggressive, they classify Okonkwo’s offense as a female crime which reveals that they degrade women by using them as an insult to men.
CD: Furthermore, Okonkwo’s fear, “Even as a little boy he had resented his father’s failure and weakness, and even now he still remembered how he had suffered when his playmate had told

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