If women place their lives in the hands of a men and don't make critical decisions about their safety and well being for themselves they will be unhappy. If a woman looks to a man for everything that she needs, she will become a slave to him, she can no longer make her own choices and decisions about the well being of herself or her family. In purple hibiscus mama looks to her husbands to pervide everything for her and she almost becomes a slave while Aunty Ifeoma works hard to pervide a good and happy life for her family while still managing to control her own fate.In Purple hibiscus Adichie use Mama and Aunty Ifeoma as foils to show that women are free only when men aren’t in control of their life
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Mama is trapped in the notion that a woman needs a man to survive and ever though her husband beats her and treats her and her children like property she still thinks it's her best and only option and she would be grateful for it. “We stood at the landing and watched Papa descend. Mama was slung over his shoulder life the jute sacks of rice his factory workers bought in bulk at seme border… “there's blood on the floor,” jaja said. “I'll get the brush from the bathroom””(33). Mama is brutally beaten through out this story but every time, even though it requires hospitalisation and recovery she never complains, she believes that its the only choice. Papa treats her like property, like “the jute sacks of rice his factory works bought”, she knows that what he is doing is very wrong and knows that she must escape his tyranny but because of her children and the on going battle in side on her self is is trapped in the prison of abuse. is talks about the prospect of life without her husband with aunty ifeoma, and even from afar you can see the prospect terrifies her. “”So you say. A with woman with children and no husband, what is that?” … “how can a woman life like that?” man's eyes …show more content…
Ifeoma knows this and does her best to educate Moma and other women about the dangers of this kind of oppression. “Six girls in my first-year seminar class are married … and when they graduate there husbands own them and their degrees.” Aunty ifeoma is describing the problem with woman essentially giving their life to a man, as it pertains to her class and education in this country. even though the woman doesn't legally own their husband anything, the men are using their wife's education as a way to almost turn there wife into slaves, the women in this situation would be nothing without their husbands and they know that their “husbands own them and their degrees”. Aunty ifeoma sees this disturbing truth and isn't afraid to tell people about it. she does her best to educate these women in order the try to show them that they don't need a man in there life to be happy, she is living proof that woman would be better off without the men in there life reuling them like kings. the only way for women to be free is to live without a man being the center of their life. In Aunty ifeoma's house there is always happiness because everybody in the family loves and respects each other. “Laughter always rang out in Aunty Ifeoma's house, and no matter
In purple hibiscus the author uses Mama …show more content…
Mama is trapped in the notion that a woman needs a man to survive and ever though her husband beats her and treats her and her children like property she still thinks it's her best and only option and she would be grateful for it. “We stood at the landing and watched Papa descend. Mama was slung over his shoulder life the jute sacks of rice his factory workers bought in bulk at seme border… “there's blood on the floor,” jaja said. “I'll get the brush from the bathroom””(33). Mama is brutally beaten through out this story but every time, even though it requires hospitalisation and recovery she never complains, she believes that its the only choice. Papa treats her like property, like “the jute sacks of rice his factory works bought”, she knows that what he is doing is very wrong and knows that she must escape his tyranny but because of her children and the on going battle in side on her self is is trapped in the prison of abuse. is talks about the prospect of life without her husband with aunty ifeoma, and even from afar you can see the prospect terrifies her. “”So you say. A with woman with children and no husband, what is that?” … “how can a woman life like that?” man's eyes …show more content…
Ifeoma knows this and does her best to educate Moma and other women about the dangers of this kind of oppression. “Six girls in my first-year seminar class are married … and when they graduate there husbands own them and their degrees.” Aunty ifeoma is describing the problem with woman essentially giving their life to a man, as it pertains to her class and education in this country. even though the woman doesn't legally own their husband anything, the men are using their wife's education as a way to almost turn there wife into slaves, the women in this situation would be nothing without their husbands and they know that their “husbands own them and their degrees”. Aunty ifeoma sees this disturbing truth and isn't afraid to tell people about it. she does her best to educate these women in order the try to show them that they don't need a man in there life to be happy, she is living proof that woman would be better off without the men in there life reuling them like kings. the only way for women to be free is to live without a man being the center of their life. In Aunty ifeoma's house there is always happiness because everybody in the family loves and respects each other. “Laughter always rang out in Aunty Ifeoma's house, and no matter