Critique Of Violence Analysis

expresses concern for the new boundaries been set through religion and civilization. One of the concerns is the violence associated with modernity. One of the interlocutors at the meeting to discuss the way forward with Mr. Wright’s highhandedness in their village summarizes colonial violence thus “Yes, we are talking about the white man’s road. But when the roof and walls of a house fall in, ceiling is not left standing. The white man, the new religion, the soldiers, the new road – they are all part of the same thing. The white man has a gun, a matchet, a bow and carries fire in his mouth. He does not fight with one weapon alone” (ibid). The crossroad of civilization and its implication for postmodern era will be worth exploring in another paper. …show more content…
Wright the British officer in charge of road construction beats and orders the beating of the young men in the village. The village holds a meeting to seek how to destroy the power of the state over them, without significant success. After their unsuccessful attempt to destroy the power of the state, they choose a nonviolent way to destroy the colonial violence. The nonviolent means they employ is explored in the conclusion. However, the violent means of the State represented by the colonial administrators produced violent ends in the villages of Umuaro. However, the lawmaking or law preserving violence in Arrow of God is not limited to its colonial materiality. Ezeulu’s power as a representative of the clan (Umuaro) is bound to violence against his own people. He also uses the protest against him as a means to draw new