Things Fall Apart | Themes
The novel was written in reaction to European assessments of African culture as found in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902) and Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson (1939) and some critics have seen in it an effort to reverse the European view, presenting Igbo society as enlightened and the European/British colonizers as in the dark. Rather, it is an attempt to present accurately Igbo society and what its people endured in the clash of their culture with that of the British. With so much apparently determined by British occupation and rule, one major theme is that of fate vs....
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