Conflicts of Gender in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe :: Things Fall Apart

in that location are constant struggles between gender, identity, commodification, and class. Among the men and women in many African tribes that still exist today, there are divergences, which will al delegacys dwell intact because of the culture and the way in which they are taught to treat each other. Chinua Achebe wrote the reinvigorated, Things Fall Apart, which is a great piece of African literature that deals with the Igbo culture, history, and the fetching over of African lands by British colonization. The ongoing gender participation is a prominent theme in Things Fall Apart presenting the smash between men and women of the African Igbo society. Throughout history, from the beginning of time to today, women pick up frequently been viewed as inferior, mens possessions whose sole purpose was to see the mens needs. Maybe its because men are physically stronger than women and ease up always had the ability to control them that way. In Things Fall Apart, the Igbo women w ere perceived as being weak. They received little or no respect in the Igbo society and were harshly abused. The recurring theme of gender conflicts helps drive the novel Things Fall Apart by showing how important women are to the men, unless they do not receive the treatment they deserve. Women have many responsibilities in the Igbo society such as having children, cooking, cleaning, and farming. These are important function for women, in time they are not given much credit or significance for their existence in the roles they fill. As Rose Ure Mezu points out The world in Things Fall Apart is one in which patriarchy intrudes oppressively into every sphere of existence. It is an andocentric world where the man is everything and the woman nothing. In some way Mezu is correct in saying that the man is everything and the woman nothing. The man holds the highest grandeur of the family and it is he who holds the titles. In Things Fall Apart, the reader follows the troubles of the ma in character Okonkwo, a tragic hero whose flaw includes the fact that his whole life was reign by fear, the fear of affliction and of weakness (2865). For Okonkwo, his father Unoka was the essence of failure and weakness.