The flexible nature of Igbo community manifests itself in several ways in the novel. It is reflected in Uchendu’s assertion that the old and new generation do not have much in common concerning the willingness to keep relationships secure. Uchendu represents the past generation who...
The most damaging and dangerous explanation somebody can say is to ‘Take care of business.’ As Carlos Gomez once expressed, ‘such a significant number of men in this world (are) living in this kind of calm urgency, limited in this crate of lethal manliness.’ In...
Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi (Nigeria) in 1930, where he grew up and was educated. He graduated in English Literature in London and moved to the US where he wrote and published Things Fall Apart in 1958. The novel helped create the Nigerian literary...
If we look around at the whole universe today, there are tons and millions of cultures centered everywhere around the globe. With this much cultures in the universe, people are bound to believe that they’re all divergent. Even though they are dissimilar in some aspects,...
Many authors use different strategies/techniques that make their books more interesting and stand out. In Things Fall Apart, a book written by Chinua Achebe, he uses literary devices to add style to the book. Some of the literary devices he uses are irony, symbolism, and...
Many literary criticisms have found similarities between these two narratives because their setting is similar and address issues that are superficially similar. These narratives are Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Although the books have many themes and topics in...
Chinua Achebe, a decorated and well-known African author from Nigeria, who in his debut novel and considered to be his all-time masterpiece wrote Things Fall Apart. His full name being Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was born in an Igbo village, in present-day Nigeria on 16 November...
“A man doesn’t become an hero until he can see the root of his own downfall” said by famous Aristotle, as he was describing a tragic hero. The books Medea and Things Fall Apart characters, Medea and Okonkwo are both tragic heros. A tragic hero,...
In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe portrays the lifestyle in Nigeria during the late 19th century. This novel plays a significant role throughout the “falling apart” of indingeous cultures from South America, New Zealand, and other countries. Chinua Achebe was born in...
Is change always positive or is it negative, and can it hurt societies? The Author of the book, Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe exposes different reactions to people and change. Things Fall Apart is based in an Igbo village in Nigeria in the late 1800s...
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