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In the novel, Second Class Citizen, the main character, Adah, is a strong, Nigerianwomen who faces sexism from within her own culture since she was born. She explains,"She was a girl who had arrived when everyone was expecting and predicting a boy...She was so insignificant" (Emecheta 7). In the Ibo culture that Adah grew up in, being agirl was looked down upon. Giving birth to a boy was a major accomplishment, whereasgiving birth to a girl was an equally major disappointment. Girls were taught to be useful,not intelligent: "A year or two would do, as long as she can write her name and count.Then she will learn to sew" (Emecheta 9). In Ibo culture, girls were valued for theirdomestic abilities. Adah refused to be measured by this, instead she was determined to goto school and get an education. She worked had to overcome the sexist attitude that her This sexist attitude continued after she got married to Francis. Francis is a typicalIbo male. He held the view that the males should go and get educated and the femaleshould stay home, or in Francis' case, work to support his education. Adah knew hisattitude, "The sharpness seemed to say to her: 'It is allowed for African males to com
He says, "They [women] live in a world of theirown, and there had never been anything like it, and never can be" (Conrad 11). It is her mysterious qualitythat is so attractive. It is the objectification of Kurtz's Intended that in the end stops Marlow fromtelling the truth about Kurtz's death. This description gives the image of a viciouscat walking across the ground with ". Part II In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow, the narrator of most of the story,tell the story of his journey into the Congo searching for the lost ivory trader, Mr. All Franciswanted from Adah was money, to pay for his education, and sex: "As far as he wasconcerned marriage was sex and lots of it, nothing more" (Emecheta 41). Kurtz exclaims, "'My Intended, my ivory, my station, myriver, my-', everything belonged to him" (Conrad 44). Because of this, women have no place in the workings of society,that being in politics or social issues. The only African women introduced in the novel is Kurtz's house maid. She is the one paying for his tripto the Congo, yet Marlow does not respect her views. To Francis,Adah was a sexual object.
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