This document summarizes a presentation comparing the female characters Mumbi from A Grain of Wheat and Annie from Enoch Arden. It notes that both Mumbi and Annie are wives whose husbands are absent, and both end up having children with other men. It discusses how Mumbi is a central character who represents the objectification of women in Kenya. It also analyzes the novels from a feminist perspective and double colonialism perspective regarding the portrayal of women characters. The presentation concludes that both novels depict strong female characters who have influence in their societies.

1. Presentation
Name: Gediya Disha Vijaybhai
Roll No: 10
Class: Sem 4
Subject : Female character in A Grain of
Wheat and Enoch Arden
Paper :14
Submitted to :Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumar sinhji Bhavnagar
University

2. About A Grain of Wheat
• Novel about
freedom
movement of
Kenya.
• Love and
relationship
• Meaning of Uhuru

3. About Enoch Arden
• A poem by Alfred
Tennyson
• Story of Fisherman
• Love relation

4. Character of Mumbi
• Wife of Gikonyo
• Central female character
• Objectification of women’s body
• Power of women character

5. Character of Annie
• Wife of Enoch
• Only one female
character
• Strong character
• Friend of Philip

6. Similarities in both
Mumbi
• Wife of Gikonyo
• Husband is out of
village
• Have child by
another man
Annie
• Wife of Enoch
• Husband gone for
voyage
• Have child by his
childhood friend

7. Double Colonialism and nationalism
• Generally in African literature we can find the
idea of double Colonialism for woman
character.
• Powerful and strong frlemale character in
novel to compare other African literature .
• Character like Wambui who encourage man
for Strike.

8. Feminist view in A grain of Wheat
• Man women relationship
• Against the masculine power
• Wangari
• Wambui
• Existing plight of women in kenya
through Mumbi

9. To sum up..
• So here both the female character has
same life with some different quality. By
this we can say that literature always
portrait female character who have
great influence on society.