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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart explores the struggles between the old traditions of the Igbo community and the effects of Christianity on the people of different calibers within that society.
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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart explores the struggles between the old traditions of the Igbo community and the effects of Christianity on the people of different calibers within that society. While on the surface it appears that the novel narrows its focus to a single character, Okonkwo and his inner battles, it also portrays an array of assorted conflicts in the realms of human verses human and human verses society. Therefore, this paper will focus on the tangle between human verses human and human verses society in the framework of the importance and role of women in Igbo society, as well as how men assign and dictate these roles. While the respect given to the first wife and the widow oracle is clearly revealed in the novel, Igbo society is not an ideal situation for women. However, it is hardly a misogynist society as one may think it...
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