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Things Fall Apart
In Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo has, at best, a conflicted relationship with women. He is very masculine and arrogant and associates women with weakness. Yams, which play an important role...
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Things Fall Apart
Folktales fulfill a number of roles in the education of the children. They are generally didactic, with a clear moral message at the end about the way in which one ought to behave. They also...
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Things Fall Apart
One of the lessons of this book is that colonialism is a process that literally makes things fall apart. After white missionaries appear in Umuofia, a part of Nigeria, the community is torn apart...
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Things Fall Apart
When we discuss identity, usually it is to discuss the character and context of an individual, although institutions, cultures, and societies also have collective identities. To succinctly answer...
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Things Fall Apart
When we're first introduced to Okonkwo, the main character in Things Fall Apart, he's distinguished himself for winning a wrestling match. The son of a poor and drunken, if amiable, father, Okonkwo...
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Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo's suicide was an act of despair. It cannot be seen as brave, but whether it is cowardly or not is a matter of cultural context. In the Christian culture that has engulfed Umuofia and driven...
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Things Fall Apart
The principal point Achebe makes about the influence of the West in Things Fall Apart is not that it is inherently better or worse than Igbo culture but that it is destructive. Igbo culture has...
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Things Fall Apart
Without a doubt, the most notable event in part 3 of this great novel is Okonkwo's suicide. Culturally speaking, suicide was a shameful act among the Igbo people, and the fact that Okonkwo chose...
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Things Fall Apart
In Part Three, the European missionaries arrive in Umuofia and gradually begin to undermine the Igbo culture by introducing Christianity and various elements of western civilization. Mr. Brown, the...
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Things Fall Apart
From the start of the novel, Okonkwo, the protagonist, is described as very prideful and someone who adheres very closely to the customs and the traditions of his people, the Igbo. He is someone...
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Things Fall Apart
After Okonkwo accidentally kills Ezeudu's son's during a chaotic funeral ritual, he and his family are banished from Umuofia for seven years and exiled to his mother's homeland of Mbanta. Okonkwo's...
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Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo subscribes to the traditional gender roles of Igbo society, where men possess authority and status while women are considered subservient, docile, and obedient. In Igbo society, masculinity...
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Things Fall Apart
It is clear from the very beginning of Things Fall Apart that Okonkwo is the polar opposite of his father. Even before Unoka is introduced, Achebe says that Okonkwo's fame "rested on solid personal...
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Things Fall Apart
Raymond Williams was much influenced by Karl Marx in his criticism, but he thought that many of his fellow Left-leaning critics were too optimistic in their view of revolution. Revolution, he...
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Things Fall Apart
As the title suggests, Thing Fall Apart is about the disintegration of a society. Okonkwo is in exile during the most rapid phase of change in Umuofia, which adds to his sense of helplessness. He...
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Things Fall Apart
I think it's both, they are interesting to read because they give the reader insight into Nigerian culture and history, but they also have allegorical meaning that helps inform the story and teach...
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Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo is the protagonist of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart. The question is often asked if Okonkwo, a member of the Igbo tribe, is a tragic hero, and there are...
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Things Fall Apart
In Chinua Achebe's celebrated novel Things Fall Apart, the white European missionaries gain entry into Igbo society by initially establishing a trading post, which brings the village of Umuofia...
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Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo is depicted as a domineering, aggressive man, who refuses to appear weak or sentimental. Okonkwo is also a violent, masculine individual, who is not afraid of conflict and ruthlessly wields...
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Things Fall Apart
The death is absolutely devastating to Okonkwo as it shakes his faith in the traditions and the things that he has built his entire life and existence around. It calls into conflict many things he...
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Things Fall Apart
There is an overall linear chronology in Things Fall Apart, as the narrative about Okonkwo follows him from his youth to his death. Because the plot is oriented around Okonkwo, there is also a long...
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Things Fall Apart
There are many relevant and resonant historical themes in Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart. Achebe was a Nigerian writer (although he usually wrote in English) and one of the first...
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Things Fall Apart
In Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo was once considered the greatest warrior alive. Things change and he commits suicide by the end of the story. It is a disgrace to commit suicide in his tribe. For all...
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Things Fall Apart
The first paragraph of Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, introduces the main character, Okonkwo, in a style that leaves no room for doubt that he is a man connected to action and drama....
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Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart has three primary themes. The first theme is the conflict between evolution and tradition. Many of the villagers are looking forward to new opportunities but are also afraid of...
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Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo's life is dominated by "the fear of failure and of weakness". In the patriarchal hierarchy of his tribe, honor and respect are measured in strength and courage, and Okonkwo's constant fear...
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Things Fall Apart
Unoka is not developed very much as a character and is present at the beginning of Things Fall Apart mainly to provide a foil for Okonkwo, someone who is the opposite of his illustrious son in...
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The return of the kites announces the coming of the dry season. The Igbo children sing songs to them when they return, a tradition which seems to have been in place for decades since it reminds...
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart takes place in pre-colonized Nigeria. Women were less than secondary class citizens. Their chief role in life was to bear children, hopefully males, and to serve...
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Things Fall Apart
In Chinua Achebe's first novel, things fall apart for the story's protagonist, Okonkwo, as well as the Igbo village of Umuofia, for various reasons. In regards to Okonkwo, he is portrayed as a...
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Things Fall Apart
Given the time and space constraints, I'll just focus on Achebe's most famous and influential novel, 1958's Things Fall Apart. Post-colonialism can be a nebulous and confusing term, as it applies...
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Things Fall Apart
Because the colonial era ended in different places at different times, the term postcolonial can apply to literature that is concerned with the influence of colonialism and its demise from the time...
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Things Fall Apart
The question of civilization is central to the conflict between the Igbo and the British. It goes back to Kipling's "White man's burden"- the idea that Europeans and Westerners in general (and the...
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Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo is depicted as an extremely aggressive, callous man, who desperately fears becoming like his father or being viewed as feminine or weak. In order to develop a masculine, intimidating...
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Things Fall Apart
The exile: Okonkwo and his family move to his mother's village, Mbanta, to begin his seven-year exile for the accidental killing of Ezeudu's son. Okonkwo's family gives him a plot of land and the...
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The white European colonists utilize religion to establish a foothold in the region, and Christianity helps undermine the traditional culture of the native Africans. Christianity offers a safe...
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Things Fall Apart
In Chinua Achebe's classic novel Things Fall Apart, there are two major factors that contribute to everything in Okonkwo's life and his home of Umuofia "falling apart." First, Umuofia changes...
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This is a great question! Both Heart of Darkness by Conrad and Things Fall Apart by Achebe are addressing the racist underpinnings of the colonization of Africa by European Christians. That...
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In chapter 13, Okonkwo attends Ogbuefi Ezeudu's funeral, which is a turbulent, exciting ceremony. Ogbuefi Ezeudu was the oldest man in his village and an esteemed warrior who had earned three...
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Things Fall Apart
Until the establishment of the Christian mission, in which schools are founded alongside churches, education in Umuofia is somewhat ad hoc and informal, depending largely on the parents of the...
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Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo is depicted as an extremely callous, violent man who ruthlessly wields his authority and severely abuses his wives on several occasions. Okonkwo's wives and children experience his...
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Things Fall Apart
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gives a talk called "The Danger of a Single Story" in which she describes the danger of allowing a single story or a single narrative in literature to...
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Things Fall Apart
Here are two ways to compare, contrast, and otherwise pair Things Fall Apart and The Alchemist. Faith Traditions and Communities of Faith Ideas (and conflicts) relating to specific systems of...
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The Igbo understanding of law and justice is founded on restitution in an attempt to right any wrongs and restore balance to the village. The Igbo system of justice is also intertwined with their...
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Things Fall Apart
A good start insofar as an overview and general critical reception of Chinua Achebe's work, in particular Things Fall Apart, would be to read "After Empire: Chinua Achebe and the Great African...
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Things Fall Apart
In Achebe's classic novel Things Fall Apart, he offers a vivid, in-depth look into traditional Igbo culture and illustrates an incredibly complex, organized society with structure, rituals,...
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Things Fall Apart
In Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart, the drums, as well as other instruments such as flutes and gongs, play a subtle but critical role in the narrative. In the village of Umuofia, drums are...
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe is arguably one of Nigeria's most famous and influential authors. His landmark novel, Things Fall Apart, is a complex story written in the seemingly simple style your question...
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Yes, there is a difference in Okonkwo's interaction with women which makes him a more meaningful, three dimensional character. First of all, Okonkwo's youngest wife, Ojiugo, goes to have her hair...
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Things Fall Apart
Ideological state apparatuses are critical in disseminating colonial ideology in Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart. Ideological state apparatuses are technically non-state institutions that...
