The lens i am going to use to break down and relate to Things Fall Apart is the view of feminism. Feminist ways consist of the view that woman are not treated as equally compared to men and they do not receive the respect that they should in any aspect of societies social statuses. In the book Things Fall Apart the men treat women as property and the more they have as their wives the more respect and supposedly more money they have as they are considered higher up in the social status. In the book women are treated like slaves and are looked down upon by men. What i would like to say in the essay would mainly be about the role women play to the ideas of feminist ways which to me would be a big part.
In my essay i will also include how gender discrimination has been around since the ancient greeks declaring that the male is always superior. In the feminist article that we read it even states, "Feminist literary criticism challenges such patriarchal statements with their accompanying male-dominated, philosophical assumptions and such gender-biased criticism."
