Feminism in Things Fall Apart

From using such lenses as feminism I learn a variety of different things that could be taken from the novel “things fall apart” by Chinua Achebe. There were things that caught my attention. I found that in the book they had a old time feel. They hadn’t been at the day and age as we are today. You would have to compare that era to the early 1920’s if not earlier. The reason I say that is because women in that era were treated different to how they are treated now. They were treated as a sort of property or something subhuman. The reason that people would even get married was because the man will over take the land the woman’s family had. It wasn’t ideal to have a girl in that time, they wanted all males. In the book they even say “The elders, or ndichie, met to hear a report of Okonkwo’s mission. At the end they decided, as everybody knew they would, that the girl should go to Ogbuefi Udo to replace his murdered wife. As for the boy, he belonged to the clan as a whole, and there was no hurry to decide his fate” for that it means the woman being sent to the other tribe wasn’t a person in this sense, but a peace offering. Yes the boy was put to death but that was because he had done wrong. The girl however had done nothing. She was sent to the other tribe to replace the wife to maintain peace but she hadn’t had a choice at all. This is a reason to believe that the woman were treated as property and offerings rather than key parts of the community or greatly needed to keep the tribe alive. So this quote as well as many others is why I believe there is strong feminism in this book.