In every society, the difference between genders leads to different roles and lifestyles depending on the culture of each society. While there may be similarities between gender roles in many societies, explanations tend to be different from culture to culture. The society depicted in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is reminiscent of an ancient Greek or Roman society, where men are considered strong warriors and breadwinners, and women are seen as objects, whose main task is to take care of children and children. obey her husband without asking questions. Although at first glance Shakespeare's play The Tempest seems different from Achebe's book, in reality at its core are similar themes, including the abuse of women and male power that dominate throughout the work. Although the only female character is a young girl, who is a puppet by her father's will, she has the courage to be honest and stand up to her father on more than one occasion, exhibiting innate female power like Ekwefi in Things Fall Apart. So these two works, although written three hundred years apart and showing two societies at opposite ends of colonization, illustrate that the gap between them is not as great as one might think when it comes to society's gender roles. The village of Iguedo at the center of Things Fall Apart lives a peaceful life through the contributions of men and women, who act according to their accepted gender identities. Men are considered stronger than women, as presented by Okonkwo, the main character of the story, whose main duties include being strong warriors when it is necessary to protect the village, owning property, taking prominent roles in the council and religious festivals. , and working on their farms to provide… half the paper… they were servants, like Ariel and Caliban, who represented the traditional social world of European societies. The power of other men came from the inheritance of their social positions, from the assertion of one's will over those inferior, without little physical labor. While in both stories women were dominated by male power and their greatest values ​​appeared as the property of men, on some occasions women were able to free themselves from subjugation by standing up for what they believed in. Ekwefi risked her life to be with the man she loved and to save her only surviving daughter, while Miranda resisted Ferdinand's mistreatment and openly admitted her feelings. However, these small scenes cannot combat male domination in both Things Fall Apart and The Tempest, and show the same gender problems in both civilized and “savage” societies of colonization..