Quote #6. Being called a woman is clearly a nasty insult as it has the ability to “kill a man's spirit.” Obviously, women aren't highly valued in Umuofia.

"Do what you are told, woman." (14, chapter 2) · "His mothers and sisters worked hard enough, but they grew women's crops, like coco-yams, beans and cassava. · " ...

"If a woman runs away from her husband her bride price is returned." "They sat in darkness or..." "they sat in darkness or the dim glow of the logs, waiting for ...

4 дек. 2012 г. · Quote #1. – 'The man who had contradicted him had no titles. That was why he had called him a woman.' (Chapter 4, p.26).

"A man belongs to his fatherland and not to his motherland. And yet we say Nneka---'Mother is Supreme.' It's true that a child belongs to his father. But when a ...

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

Examples of gender roles in Things Fall Apart include traditional domestic roles associated with the home for women and roles associated with agriculture and ...

In the novel Things Fall Apart it states, “The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.” (Achebe 153).

Masculinity Quotes in Things Fall Apart. Below you will find the important quotes in Things Fall Apart related to the theme of Masculinity. Chapter 2 Quotes.

Women are to do what they need to do and then go to the kitchen. The men are valued because they do all the “heavy lifting.” Okonkwo said “I will not have a son ...