o reject the sexist attitude as well: "My sons
will learn to treat their wives as people" (Emecheta 121). Adah is a strong women who
will not let herself be objectified and will not let the sexism of her culture keep her
down. Adah would dislike the way that women are portrayed in Joseph Conrad's Heart of
Darkness because women are treated as though they do not belong in the real world.
Women are treated as objects instead of people with thoughts and feelings. It is this
treatment that Adah worked hard to overcome.
In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow, the narrat
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