Chinua Achebe

The two main characters in the book Things Fall Apart and Julius Caesar share some common aspects in their lives, but are also extremely different from each other. Chinua Achebe and William Shakespeare both portray the characters, Okonkwo and Caesar, as strong leaders in the two individual books. Okonkwo and Caesar share characteristics in their culture, personal weaknesses, and family, but they also convey their differences from each other that are expressed throughout each novel. The…

In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the Igbo experienced colonialism by the Europeans has deeply affected the Igbo’s lives in terms of changes in politic, social-culture and economic. After the 19th Century, post-colonial countries, including what is Nigeria now, are in the era of globalization, which is neither neo-colonialism nor imperialism, because there are significant differences between colonialism in Things Fall Apart and globalization in modern era. One of the political changes…

and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Conrad’s narrative tells about an Englishman named Marlow traversing the Congo River and observing with a Eurocentric perspective the unfair treatment and livelihood of African peoples, whereas Achebe’s tale follows a revered man named Okonkwo living as a member of the Umuofia tribe in Nigeria when European Christian missionaries move into their territory in hopes of civilizing them. Though the novels are of opposing perspective, both Conrad and Achebe…

“Relationships never die a natural death. They are always murder by attitude, behavior, ego, or ignorance.” Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was the greatest wrestler. He defeated those that people thought could not be beaten. Whenever the tribe went into war with nearby neighbors, they always sent Okonkwo to do the job. Okonkwo knew that no one could beat him, which caused him to do whatever he wanted to do. Ekwefi, one of Okonkwo’s wives and Unoka, his father gets mistreated by…

however, is not a uniquely American phenomenon. In fact, for many cultures around the world, there may be a single person or idea that embodies the larger culture. The word for this idea is "microcosm," and one of the best examples occurs in Chinua Achebe 's novel Things Fall Apart. In the book Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo represents a microcosm of the Igbo culture, a culture in crisis. Okonkwo is known as a hero in Igbo society because of his devotion to tradition and religion, his hard work…

be change without someone fighting to keep things the same. In 1890’s Nigeria some members of the Ibo clan embrace this new change, while others, like the protagonist Okonkwo, sternly believe in the old ways of the clan. This is the setting for Chinua Achebe’s greatest novel, Things Fall Apart. One theme of this book is violence. Violence is shown to prove Okonkwo’s strength and dominance of the Ibo clan, but Okonkwo cannot defeat fate. Okonkwo has an excessive fear of being like his father…

A great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat, that is the definition of a tragic hero. In the book, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo has many struggles in his story, but at the same time he was a hero. Some of his struggles where he put to high of expectations on himself to not become like his father in any way possible, and the negative outside forces. Okonkwo was a tragic hero because his mistakes in judgement and outside…

In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Ibo culture clashes against Christian Missionaries in the middle of the story. Back during the 19th century, Christian Missionaries spread their culture through European Colonialism, which, even though brought modern technologies and ideas, it left native African cultures permanently damaged. This is portrayed with the views of an African native, Okonkwo, who was once famously known. After his seven-year exile, he came back to a changed Umuofia.…

The son of aforementioned Unoka, early in life Okonkwo was recognized as one of the most respected warriors in his culture, and Achebe notes that his success was not seen by the Ibo as luck, but because “one could say that his chi or personal god was good” (p. 27), Achebe also hints at a man possibly abusing his power using his chi, saying “But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also” (p. 27). Okonkwo goes on to…

and has incorporated itself into many cultures. However, during the process of integrating the western culture into other cultures, there have been many cultural collisions. One cultural collision is represented in the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. In this book, the Western culture clashes with the Igbo culture in Nigeria. Nwoye, the son of the main character in the book, is set up in a way to represent the Western culture while others stay true to the Igbo culture. The Western…