Category: Chinua Achebe

The excerpt from Nectar in a Sieve and Marriage Is a Private Affair demonstrate the negative and the positive influences of modern ideas and modern ways on traditional cultures. To begin with, one of the pronounced positive influences of modern ways on traditional cultures in the excerpt from Nectar in a Sieve is the medical…

The Human Condition is used to reference the qualities that comprise the imperatives of human existence. Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart, is one of literary merit, attracting readers worldwide for its use of universal themes. Things Fall Apart takes readers into Umuofian society, where Okonkwo is initially regarded as a warrior of the clan. As…

In this essay I am going to analyse the tragic role of the central character from the novel Things Fall Apart written by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in 1958, Okonkwo, who goes from having a good life and power within his clan to being a man driven to death by his misery and his…

INTRODUCTION Things Fall Apart is an African novel written by famous Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. The novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader (chief) of an Igbo community. It follows the events leading up to his banishment from the community for accidentally killing a clansman, through the seven years of his exile, to his…

Personality is built throughout someones childhood and a tragic event can cause it to change form. Whatever environment that a child is exposed to can influence how they begin to act, whether it be a good or bad change, they usually pick up their behavior from their guardians. In Erich Fromms, Sigmund Freuds Mission (1959),…

Whether a reader notices it or not, every form of literature has some form of organization. The elements that are organized that make a story great are, but not limited to, plot, setting, and characters. But of course, authors dont have to have these elements in sequential order all of the time, nor do they…

Thesis Things Fall Apart focuses and analyses Igbo society as shown in the novel, before and after arrival of missionaries to Umuofia, which led to clash of cultures. It also incorporates critical theory to analyze the novel. It is based on post-colonial criticism, as it is relevant to Achebes writings in Things Fall Apart. For…

Throughout the beginning of Things Fall Apart, one of the most notable symbols is Okonkwos pride. Okonkwo is portrayed as a very prideful man, who is driven entirely by his ache for status and ability to be manly. He is afraid of becoming like his father and becoming a coward lacking pride, and unable to…

Chinua Achebe published his first novel Things Fall Apart in 1958. Achebe wrote his novel in response to European novels that depicted Africans as savages who needed to be enlightened by the Europeans. Achebe presents to the reader his peoples history with both strengths and imperfections by describing, for example, Igbo festivals, the worship of…

In 1958, the news of Chinua Achebes newly published book, Things Fall Apart spread like wildfire throughout the crowded streets of Africa, at last giving the Africans what they have always longed for: a novel about European colonialism in an African perspective. Before the publication of Things Fall Apart, most novels about Africa were written…