Chinua Achebe

that when the time came his people would rise up and go to war with the white man in order to win back their livelihood. But when the time came “He knew that that Umuofia would not go to war. He knew because they had let the other messengers escape” (Achebe, Page 205). Okonkwo saw that his people had…

An ideal collective society is one that has a primary entity while also maintaining room for an individual to act on his or her own accord. There are many communities which fail to achieve such a society. In the book, Things Fall Apart, author Chinua Achebe creates the main protagonist, Okonkwo, and the story tracks his consistent struggle with maintaining individualism in the Umuofia tribe. The rigid structure of the Umuofia community hinders the individual from being able to fully thrive…

In Chinua Achebe’s postcolonial story of Things Fall Apart, Achebe portrays the main character, Okonkwo, as an angry man who is unable to show compassion which becomes his hamartia. This hamartia which impacts Okonkwo throughout the novel, eventually leads to Okonkwo’s own tragic demise. The death of Okonkwo was from his own fatal flaw, as a tragic hero. Not through the cultural displacement that may have affected the people around him. Aristotle describes a tragic hero as someone who: holds…

In the book All Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe which tells the story of African tribes being colonized by white settlers and missionaries. Showing the point of view from the African perspective instead of the white settler perspective. The movie Lagaan directed by Ashutosh Gowariker telling a story about an Indian tribe fighting against the British for what is right, no Lagaan. Also the movie Rabbit Proof Fence directed by Phillip Noyce where 3 sisters are taken from their mother and home…

In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is one of the main characters and he is seen as a strong man. Since Okonkwo is respected by people in Umofia, he is somewhat justified for the things he does. He beated one his wife two times during the week of peace when he shouldn’t be allowed to commit any violence but nobody seemed to cared. When the British missionaries joined their tribe, they thought that they were uncivilized people because of their customs. At the end of the novel…

has brought about a multitude of remarkable changes as a civilization. Nonetheless, forcing Christianity on a culture that has a preexisting religion and tradition system is not the most beneficial approach. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, it becomes apparent that cultures cannot be categorized as more primitive or less primitive because every belief system and value of traditions differ from civilization to civilization. The viewpoints of our world are divided from one…

The world is full of constant change, and in literature, change is used to progress storylines, develop characters and prove theme. The novels Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe carry out similar themes while their main characters analyze African and Western culture. Heart of Darkness is Marlow’s journey into the Belgian Congo, where his identity is forever changed while being away from his typical European lifestyle. Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart ultimately…

Okonkwo’s Cultural Collision in Nigeria In the novel Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, just such a culture clash takes place, with the main character Okonkwo's village being overtaken by Christian white men seeking to convert his tribe. Although many people become convinced of the new religion's authenticity over time, Okonkwo is an inflexible warrior at heart, and his refusal to accept the changes taking place in his community serves to further aggravate the point of the novel- that things…

Macbeth and Things Fall Apart The tragic heroes of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart create concepts of the way the different cultures perceive the idea of the tragic hero. The tragic hero in both cultures suffers the downfall of the story or play. Within the stories both heroes show different forms of a tragic flaw. The stories also show the difference in temperament for the cultures concerning how the men treated and reacted towards certain things. The differences in…

When should rebellion be used, and why should it be used? Why is it necessary to rebel against authority? When someone is in an authoritative position, it is very likely for them to be absorbed in their power, and thus, abusing it in a way that annoys their subordinates, at best. In other cases of abused power in history, people in powerful positions have exploited their power so that the people under their rule have been lied to, spied on, manipulated, and deprived of their most basic rights.…