Masculinity
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- Chapter 2
- Okonkwo was not afraid of war. He was a man of action, a man of war. Unlike his father he could stand the look of blood. In Umuofia's latest war he was the first to bring home a human head.
- Chapter 2
- Even as a little boy he had resented his father's failure and weakness, and even now he still remembered how he had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was agbala. That was how Okonkwo first came to know that agbala was not only another name for a woman, it could also mean a man who had taken to title. And so Okonkwo was ruled by one passion - to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness.
- Chapter 7
- Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent, but somehow he still preferred the stories that his mother used to tell...
- Okonkwo, unlike his father, has no fear of violence, but he actually revels in it. Fearlessness in war is a highly respected quality in Umuofia.
- Chapter 8
- She should have been a boy!
- Despite all of Okonkwo's showy manliness, he is ruled by fear. A deep fear of being weak and feminine, like his father, Originally, Okonkwo fears nothing but himself.
- Chapter 14
- A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland.
- Okonkwo wants Nwoye to be less lazy and more masculine. Okonkwo believes that Nwoye should be brought up on masculine stories of violence and bloodshed. Nwoye understands what his father expects of him, yet he secretly maintains his preference for stories that do not focus on violence.
- Chapter 14
- Ezinma performs a traditionally feminine duty when she brings her father food. When she commands Okonkwo to finish his food and sits down to make sure he follows her order, Ezinma demonstrates a sense of self-control and confidence that Okonkwo considers masculine and he wishes that his sons had that.
- Ezinma took the dish in one hand and the empty water bowl in the other and went back to her mother's hut. She should have been a boy, Okonkwo said to himself again. His mind went back to Ikemefuna and he shivered.
- This is a different view toward women because it explains how Okonkwo is like a child and he can only recognize the male power of success and leadership.
- The mother offers her child something the father never could completely care about. This explains why a man is exiled to his motherland when he has committed a crime and he can expect to find sympathy and forgiveness there.
- It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in it's mother's hut.
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