Sign up for our newsletters to receive our Best of 2024 ezine!

Reviews by mbone muks

Order Reviews by:
Wizard of the Crow: A Novel
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
feminist pespective (11/17/2010)
Ngugi Wa Thiongo's Wizard of the crow provides a stunning portrayal of the feminine quest. It presents the woman as a very powerful and extremely determined person. Judging from my reading of this text, the woman is the pivot of the book. If she is taken out, then the book will be a sham. The woman provokes every action that arises in the novel and better still, even our protagonist has as his catalyst Nyawira. Kamiti's destiny comes to fulfillment, only when he is around Nyawira. when Kamiti again is inflicted by the"IF" syndrome, only the "limping witch" can take him out of this condition. furthermore, looking at the ruler, he realizes that the woman is not someone to join forces against. Eunice who was his biggest stumbling block had to join him through every means. That notwithstanding, the ruler keeps Racheal very far away from him when she starts questioning his involvement with school girls. the ruler knows very well that, hell has no fury than a woman's scorn. this, can further be justified when the ruler stays out of the country for so long, not caring about his citizens. He receives all sort of messages back home however, this did not propel him. he continued in his stay. the only thing that impel him to forgo this journey was ; women have started beating their husbands. this statement did not just frightened him, it scared him because he has recognized the strength of the woman.this forces him to leave America that very moment for home even in his critical condition.

LOVE, is the only antidote to this condition. The fury of a woman can only be neutralized by genuine love. To elaborate on this , one has to look at Tarjirika , who after he is threatened by the women for beating his wife, goes home and cries to the creation of the fountain of arrested motions. This place was like a cursed land that arrested any living thing that comes into contact with it. This curse however is broken by the genuine love that Mariko and Maritha share. Wizard of the Crow is just propagating that, men and women in society must work together as one. for a society to be in balance, these two have to work in harmony and not relegating one to the background like tarjirika did. His success only comes to fulfillment when he starts combining force with his wife which helps him to be the new ruler.
  • Page
  • 1

Top Picks

  • Book Jacket: Small Rain
    Small Rain
    by Garth Greenwell
    At the beginning of Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain, the protagonist, an unnamed poet in his ...
  • Book Jacket: Daughters of Shandong
    Daughters of Shandong
    by Eve J. Chung
    Daughters of Shandong is the debut novel of Eve J. Chung, a human rights lawyer living in New York. ...
  • Book Jacket: The Women
    The Women
    by Kristin Hannah
    Kristin Hannah's latest historical epic, The Women, is a story of how a war shaped a generation ...
  • Book Jacket: The Wide Wide Sea
    The Wide Wide Sea
    by Hampton Sides
    By 1775, 48-year-old Captain James Cook had completed two highly successful voyages of discovery and...

BookBrowse Book Club

Book Jacket
In Our Midst
by Nancy Jensen
In Our Midst follows a German immigrant family’s fight for freedom after their internment post–Pearl Harbor.
Who Said...

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book

Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!

Wordplay

Big Holiday Wordplay 2024

Enter Now

Your guide toexceptional          books

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.