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In Chinua Achebe’s renowned novel Things Fall Apart, the West received its first level of consciousness into their colonial nature through the vantage point of an African perspective. Achebe’s classic refuses to feud the colonized against the colonizer, additionally he refuses to lighten the disconcerting circumstances and situations his native Africa encounters with the 19th … Read more
Ogidi, Anambra and Stratford, England, nearly four thousand three hundred and twenty two miles apart, are the birthplaces of two extremely different authors both culturally and age wise. Although very different, these authors, Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, and William Shakespeare, author of Macbeth, both wrote popular stories in which the protagonist’s downfall … Read more
Okonkwo is a strong powerful man, but his fatal flaw is his hubris. Hubris is excessive pride or self-confidence, and is shown to the reader quickly early-on in the book. I think that Okonkwo is aware that he is a prideful man in the sense that he would rather fight with his fists than try … Read more
There are many circumstances in which change occurs; change can either be sought after or forced upon. In Thing Fall Apart, change is forced upon the Ibo people by the white missionaries who inhabit Umuofia. In The Life of Olaudah Equiano and The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, both Equiano and Douglass seek … Read more
Literature for centuries has looked as if it would evolve and change to become very object oriented, unreserved and optimistic. However, it has in fact become very profound, and based on a character’s eternal quest for their own personal identity. Great authors authors such as, Mark Twain, Chinua Achebe, Clarice Lispector, Arthur Miller and Fadwa … Read more
When I originally read about the traditions and rituals in the book, I thought that it was crazy. I believed that there was nothing in our society that compared to the sacredness of the kola nut. Even though I found the kola nut to be an incredibly interesting symbol, I found it very hard to … Read more
