Looking back on how women's roles have progressed to where we are today is a lot to take in. Women for many generations have been expected to be un educated, humble, quiet, and a house maker. Women have been under their husband's control and power for many years, women's opinion has never matered and few have had the courgage to speak their mind. Today women are now running for president of America and that would have been un heard of many years ago. Prehyduce against women have been around for quite some time, "The ancient Greeks aberred gender discrimination, declearing the male to be the superior and the female inferior." (Feminisim, 171) Women have never been treated equally to men, to read that females are supposed to be inferior to the male gender is unsettling. Women should always have the same opportunites as males and not one over the other.
Men have been able to disbale women from reaching their full potential for many times. In Things Fall Apart Okonkwo is very pleased when he hears Nwoye talking down uopon females, "Always happy when he heard him grumbling about women. That showed that in time he would be able to control women-folk." (Achbe 45) Okonkwo degrades women and he treats them worse than slaves would be treated. He beat his youngest wife Ojiugo because he feels that she is being neglient. His love for power and control takes over when he beats her. The fact that hearing Nwoye talk poorly of females brings happiness to Okonkwo shows that he really is anti women. He believes that they should have no owner ship of anything and that children are under property was father and husband.
In my essay that I will write about Feminsim in the text of Things Fall Apart I will analyze Okonkwo's behavior towards Ojiugo, and where he gets these strong feelings and beliefs from. What is Ibo's society expecations towards women, and why women have no power and have to live under neath the head male of the house hold and the actions that the male's use to keep women in their power.
