In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe the role of women is mostly portrayed as a negative one because in the novel the women do not get treated the same way as men, the women get beat, and the women in the book are seen as property and not as human beings, which is what they are. The women in things fall apart play a major role in the novel because without the women the men would never be anything because in order to be a fascinating leader you need to have many wives, (although that is wrong) but they are still treated as if them are property. For example in the novel it states on page twenty-nine “Okonkwo knew she was not speaking the truth. He walked back to his obi to await ojiugo’s return. And when she returned he beat her very
