Things Fall Apart Imperialism Essay

Chinua Achebe is regarded as one of Africa’s most influential author, his works focusing on the condition of african life and culture. The book follows the life of a stubborn warrior Okonkwo,who struggles to deal with the changes in his life as white missionaries appear and alter the structure of his society. Achebe’s life influenced the meaning of the book by bringing to light a perspective on Imperialism and African culture that is honest and brings to light a unseen perspective. His goal was to display the conflict between western culture and traditional Igbo culture, a war that rages within Achebe himself

Achebe received a formal education alongside learning his family traditions, and upon reading he was dissatisfied with the accounts of Africa that portrayed it in a crudel light, works like the novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad that depicts the heart of all evil and greed to be in the …show more content…
He is a man that needs to be in control and will use violence to get it, we see this a lot in the treatment of his family. While he does love them he can’t show it in fear of being weak so he beats then and distances himself, especially with his son Nwoye.He lives in fear that his so will become lazy like his father Unoka who died debuted and cursed.“Okonkwo's first son, Nwoye, was then twelve years old but was already causing his father great anxiety for his incipient laziness. At any rate, that was how it looked to his father, and he sought to correct him by constant nagging and beating.” (Achebe) In many ways Nwoye is similar to Achebe himself, both struggle between the pull of their old religion and christianity, and their prolific love for