Invisible Man And Things Fall Apart Analysis

Ralph Ellison and Chinua Achebe both provide novels portraying the lives of two Africans, though in different settings of the United States and Africa, respectively. Even though the literary works are set in places of different time periods, they share one significant idea in common: oppression. Caucasian Americans and Europeans discriminate the Africans in a variety of ways, such as unwanted religions spread and being second-class citizens in a majority white rule. Furthermore, white Europeans and Americans use black people through means of obtaining land, resources, or power, leaving them in a state of palpable, inveterate anger. On one side of the morality spectrum, the majority of the general oppressors feel triumphant due to the numerous resources acquired or by how the power structure is established. Additionally, Invisible Man and Things Fall Apart demonstrate personal accounts of oppression that indicate the unhappiness of those who feel controlled by the intruding outside presence. However, this negative concept can be from an inside presence as well. Oppression sums up all the negative “-isms” in life, such as racism and …show more content…
Therefore, the males in the village feel superior in every aspect of life, so as a result of this fact, they are content to know nothing will stop them in their rule over their own people, seeing that the Umuofias are aware of their own strength. “Umuofia was feared by all its neighbours. It was powerful in war and in magic, and its priests and medicine men were feared in all the surrounding country” (Achebe 4). They know they are at the top of the power pyramid, which is, essentially, their downfall since they took their sovereignty for