Feminist Readings........

While looking at the feminist literary text I found that they were drawn to the social roles of a man vs woman. The weighted value of power between woman and man as well as woman being treated as sexual objects through out the feminist readings.

In the readings of Jane Eyre: Her hand in marriage was about the roles of arranged marriage and how it is a form of upward mobility for some. Although a blessing for some can be an loss for others in ways of emotional and spiritual despaired. I think of it as creating a fake home and once this is done how real is your relationship with the other parties involved.

"The instability of kinship relations is imaged in the patterns of gain and loss, acceptance and denial, enacted at each 'home'-most dramatically in the lost of a lawful wedded husband, spiritually and sexually akin but socially tabooed".


In the feminist readings of Things Fall Apart it showed that the males of the tribes dictated what a real woman was by if she could give him as many boys as possible. They believed that the boys where to follow after their dads because the men symbolized power. The woman where thought to be important but just for the use of baby makers.

While male readings indicate that "the man is the point of reference in this society" Palmer (1983) stresses that as child bearers, women are pivotal to the literal survival of community and societal norms.

In both of these readings the women are only there because of some sort of agreement that the families shared. The woman a portrayed as sexual beings only good for one thing but as we all know this is not true.