We're better.

     I'm not completely positive on the route I want to take with this, but for right now, I am going to go with the Feminism lens. I might write about how the females in this novel follow the stereotypical role of a female. They are very subservient and all they do is household things. It seems as if their whole lives are dedicated to serving their husbands and that they are at their husbands disposal. Elaborating on the idea that "Century after century, male voices continue to articulate and determine the social role and cultural and personal significance of women"(171).  In Things Fall Apart, the man is the decision maker, ecpecially with how the women should act and where they stand in their community.  In this novel, women are not really respected, even though they are the ones who technically do everything for their families. Also, in Things Fall Apart, there are no women in a leading roles, they are kind of just mentioned with no great detail. By "Being subordinate to the male, the female discovers that she is a secondary or nonexsistent player in the major social institutions of her culture, such as the church, government, and educational systems"(173). They wives, in the novel, are hardly mentioned. And if they are it was because they had done something wrong. The women had no role in politics in their cultural, that was  job for the man. Culturally, they were sold to the highest bider,  which was decided by her attractiveness. She was meant to bear children, cook for her husband, and keep the house clean for the husband. And if they happen to do something the man disapproved off, he may handle it however he wished. Basically, the men had all control and could decide what role he wanted the women to play. Because these roles are part of their cultural, it feels natural for the women to be completely subservient.