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Okonkwo's Treatment Of Women In Things Fall Apart

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In the Ibo society, and many other cultures, women are overlooked by the men. The women are thought to be inferior, weak, overly-sensitive, incapable of taking care of themselves. It is in these same patriarchal societies that the men are dependent on the women’s care: placing food on the table, raising the children, taking care of the house. As seen in Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo relies on the labor of his multiple female counterparts. He mistreats their care, as the women and children endure his irrational anger, and physical and verbal abuse. Although it’s natural in the Ibo society for the male to be dominant, Okonkwo shows no respect and oversteps his place. Achebe comments on this disrespect and extreme injsutice saying, “’A man belongs
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