A Feminist Viewpoint

My attempt in analyzing this type of topic falls into feminism. I may not have a strong perspective based on what the significant concepts are within feminism and "Things Fall Apart", but I strongly evaluated the certain circumstances within the novel in how men are taken for granted to be the "rulers"--or put in a more clear relation--more important than women in society. In the Igbo world, women are also taken for granted to be obedient in cooking, cleaning, and nursing. It is "supposed" to be common or normal for each sex to take their his/her own role in society, but as time elaborates on, roles slowly alter and may even switch. The clan in the Igbo society have men who commonly look down on women. "Century after century, male voices continue to articulate and determine the social role and cultural and personal significance of women" (Feminism 171). Although, in the past where women were commonly ranked lower than men, through growing history, women began to rise with their strong determination in education and successful career. To contrast this, "No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and children he was not really a man" (Achebe 45). In the novel, the men have a compelling amount of pride where that respect to their own women and children do not take in account at all in being a good role model to other young men or "agbalas"--men who have not taken a title. Similar to the knowledge of the men of Igba, "Woman is a slave whom we must be clever enough to set upon a throne" (Feminism 169). In society, there many bounds where sexist boundaries are met and are used against and for each gender. However, in a feminist outlook, women are strongly looked down upon, cursed at, taken for granted, and overall misunderstood. For some reasons, there are areas where women cannot meet certain criteria as men do but it is the exact same for men also who cannot do things in which women can. In this world, men and women are different, but it doesn't require to choose which one is best to pick on or be biased on. Life in certain portions  should not be played like a deck of cards where men are kings and rule the world just as they please where women's queen role has no particular importance or say at all. "Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize" (Feminsim 170). Women seem to be inevitably played like dolls where one may propose that women cannot think intellectually for themselves where they consistently need a hint to have a chain reaction happen in their brains. However, women in "Things Fall Apart" do play a bold and important role for their men where men cannot do for themselves. So, what I'm trying to come across is that  men and others complain so impulsively about women and how they are intensively emotional, but overall, men would be nothing or won't have much without the existence of women. Women are just as important as men.