Things Fall Apart

The setting of "Things Fall Apart" significantly influences the characters, plot, and themes. The pre-colonial Igbo society shapes the characters' identities, cultural practices, and conflicts. The...

The Umuofia community in Things Fall Apart is held together by traditional customs, religious ceremonies, social hierarchy, familial relationships, and a dependence on farming. Chinua Achebe...

The "week of peace" in Things Fall Apart is significant as a time when the Igbo community honors the earth goddess by avoiding violence and conflict. It is meant to promote harmony and ensure a...

The locusts arrive at the village in Chapter 7 of this text, and are greeted with unequivocal joy and enthusiasm. The narrator reveals that the locusts have not come for many years, so only the...

Things Fall Apart presents a challenge to the positivist idea of history—that conditions continually improve over time—by depicting the change to Umuofia's culture as a result of Christian...

Umuofia's downfall in Things Fall Apart is primarily due to the arrival of European colonizers and missionaries. Their introduction of new religion, government, and trade disrupts the social,...

It is clear from Achebe's presentation of Okonkwo and his people that the Ibo have their own very rich system of society that gives testament to a diverse and structured culture that has its own...

Quite a few changes happened to Unuofia during the 7 years of exile.  Perhaps if Okonkwo had been present in his village during that time, the changes would not seem so drastic, but they are...

In Things Fall Apart, the setting primarily takes place in the Igbo village of Umuofia in Nigeria during the late 19th century. The novel explores the traditional Igbo society and the impact of...

At the beginning of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the men of Umuofia are called together into a meeting in order to discuss how they should move forward after an Umuofian woman is murdered in...

In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, it is no coincidence that the standards of greatness valued in Umuofia bear a striking resemblance to the masculine standards that Okonkwo holds dear. Indeed,...

One of the biggest changes that the missionaries enact in Umuofia is the way in which they admit outcasts into the church and give them status, importance and identity. Such outcasts had been...

In part 3 of Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, Christianity has gained a strong foothold in Umuofia and is beginning to supplant local religious traditions. When Mr. Smith, a new missionary,...

Umuofia is the name of a cluster of nine Igbo villages located in lower Niger around the turn of the 19th century. Umuofia is also the main village and home to Okonkwo, the protagonist and tragic...

Some of the decisions involved in writing a monologue about Okonwko’s exile depend on who is speaking and whether the speech is a monologue or a soliloquy. A monologue is a substantial speech that...

The only rule is that the in-laws must return the bride-price. In chapter 10, the egwugwu are introduced. They sit as judges for all matters of the Ibo court. They hear a case in which a woman has...

It may be that you are confusing the idea of suspicion with the concept of acquiescence. The leaders of Umuofia are intelligent, alert and perceptive. They know precisely what is going on around...

In Chapter Two, the Umuofia clan want to avenge the murder of Ogbuefi Udo's wife, who died at the hands of men from the Mbaino clan. The unfortunate woman was at the market in Mbaino when she was...

In Things Fall Apart, cultural intrusion and change significantly impact Ibo customs and community by introducing new religious beliefs, government structures, and economic practices. These changes...