Women in third world fiction
In many of the stories that we have done this semester women are treated like dirt. They are used as slaves, they do nothing but chores, and they are uncared for by there husbands. Things Fall Apart, No one writes to the Colonel, Who Cares, The Shroud, and The Unwanted are all stories where men are strong and women are weak in all aspects of life. The authors of all these stories show us how women are only valued for there services, such as cooking , cleaning, and laundry which some are forced into doing, such as in the story Who Cares. Women are not only forced into doing chores, they're also forced into marriage. Chinua Achebe is the only author that assigns important roles to the women found in his story, but the women in his story are still treated with no respect at all. The women in Things Fall Apart are used primarily for chores around the house and for childbirth. The women in Okonkwo's tribe are seen as inferior in life, mind and body. Men are seen as strong beings, who have no emotion, no fear, and are eager to kill. After Okonkwo kills Ikemefuna he returns home feeling very distraught. "When did you
old woman," he asks himself, "you, who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo you have become a woman indeed " He feels that he has become a woman because he is feeling remorse and sorrow over Ikemefuna's death. Okonkwo's tribe allows wife beating as it was a common solution to disobedient women. You're willful, stubborn, and inconsiderate," says the Colonel's wife to him. All of these stories show us how women are portrayed in poor, less fortunate societies. His uncle, after laughing at his ignorance explains to him why they do this. He also beat her once when she was pregnant until she miscarried. Basically they're nothing more that slaves. The main role of women in this society is for them to be good, loyal housewives. " Which means that when things are going bad our mother, who is a women, will always see us through it. Women are only good for cooking, cleaning, and doing what their husbands tell them to do. The Colonel has a very wild imagination, his wife always has to be realistic and bring him back to reality. His uncle gives a speech directed at him shortly after he comes to his motherland. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Neither of the women in the two stories want to get married but they have no choice.
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