think that feminists are against motherhood and families in general. This impression many people have of feminism, according to Elaine Tuttle Hansen, is “so ingrained . . . that in an anthology of writing from the women’s liberation movement . . . essays on ‘family’ are prefaced with this disclaimer: ‘We are not against love, against men and women living together, against having children. What we are against is the role women play once they become wives and mothers’” (5; qtd. in Hansen 5). However
patriarchal distribution of power that puts women in all kinds of dilemmas in the novel. One of weapon men use to oppress women is “silence and obedience’. Silence and obedience are considered as important values in Shona culture and colonial Rhodesia. This essay will therefore, explore the kinds of dilemmas nyasha, Tambu, Lucia, Mainini and Maiguru go through in the hands of patriarchal system and how they come to terms with it. Tambu watches her dream of going to school being crunched because of her gender
elements which combine to form this theme. The Gothic as a genre is not something which just emerged ripe and ready for exploitation into the modern era. (Spooner, 2006) It is profoundly concerned with the past, it has a history. The aim of this extended essay is to focus on the seduction of the Gothic