Marginalization and subjugation of women; in Chinua Achebes ‘Things Fall Apart’

Authors

  • Rajesh Reddy B L Assistant Professor, Department of English SVR Engineering College, Nandyal Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61841/j1z5hs24

Keywords:

Subjugation, Marginalization, Achebe

Abstract

Subjugation is the one-sided deployment of power, law, or physical power toward keeping from being free or equivalent. It may intend to hold somebody down in a social sense, for example, a dictator government may do in an abusive society. It can likewise mean to intellectually trouble somebody, for example, with the mental load of a harsh thought. In a social equity setting, persecution is the thing that happens when individuals are pushed somewhere near social orders. It is the activity of power or force in a troublesome, pitiless, or uncalled for way. It can likewise be characterized as a demonstration or occasion of enslaving, the condition of being oppressed, and the sentiment of being intensely troubled, intellectually or truly, by inconveniences, antagonistic conditions or individuals, and tension. Along these lines, post-frontier analysis offers the focal points through which female characters can recapture power. This paper features how Achebe utilizes the character of Ani, the earth goddess and Ezeani, the minister of the goddess, to exhibit the likenesses between women viz - a - viz their significance and nature as far as fruitfulness and creation. Strikingly, Achebe and Darko are persuaded that the time has come to do equity to women. It is similarly an endeavor to do a relative examination of the women in Things Fall Apart in accordance with nature. It x-beams the abuse of women and condition in the novel. It will likewise investigate the predominant male practices in Things Fall Apart identifying with nature and women, how both are viewed as guiltless, female, beneficial and defenseless against abuse is the essence of the examination. At last, the paper not just gives the peruser a thought that no condition is changeless yet in addition and for the most part that the two people are required for a superior change of the African landmass. 

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Published

29.02.2020

How to Cite

Reddy B L, R. (2020). Marginalization and subjugation of women; in Chinua Achebes ‘Things Fall Apart’. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 24(1), 7896-7909. https://doi.org/10.61841/j1z5hs24