Adichie portrays religion to be the main cause of violence throughout purple hibiscus. The violence Eugene inflicts on his family represents the violence inflicted by colonisation. Adichie states that if you "show people as one thing over and over again then that is what they become. Eugene himself is a product of a post colonial society, his...

Plath's poem Lady Lazarus takes a religious story about a man and changes the focus onto a woman, presenting to us a female perspective on the patriarchy, opening it up to us to female suffering endured at the hands of a patriarchal society, the poem focuses around them themes of dying and coming back to life, resembling the Bible story...