East Africa

Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, highlights the effects of European imperialism in African society. White missionaries, Europeans, exposed the Ibo people to new ways of life. However, Okonkwo, the African leader, mourned the aggressive, yet subtle change. The imperialists infringed on the Ibo identity and way of life. Achebe characterizes European imperialism and its effects on African society through the lens of religion. European imperialists proclaimed their religion as…

Nature of the native is written by Thomas Hardy who is a writer of nature and reality. He plots the story in an elaborately described landscape. His interest in nature scenes shows that he has spent his childhood close to nature. His closeness to nature makes him able to write on it. In the novel ''Return of The Native'' Hardy described a nature as Edgon Heath which is an antagonist to human beings. Heath is a character that influences other characters. It also has control on the lives of people…

(73). Oftentimes white is symbolic of goodness or purity, however, describing Brussels as a tomb indirectly shows the underlying darkness that affects Europe underneath the veneer of society and civility. Europe may seem far and so very separate from Africa, but there is no true difference between the two. At the end of the novel, as Marlow is approaching Europe, it is described as “the heart of an immense darkness,” leaving no one impervious (155). The hypocrisy of imperialism is prevalent…

intentions were with the story. Cordor is quoted as saying “The story is a dramatization of the humanity of a struggling African family in the big city…a portrayal of the plight of the semiskilled or unskilled, uneducated, and low-income masses of modern Africa who migrate to cities in search of better life for their families, but who only experience loneliness, poverty, diseases, alienation, and despair” (178). Kollie and his wife Marwu are poor, country people that have moved to the city and…

The novella Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad in 1899, which is set in the Congo, Africa in 1890. It is based on the narrator Charles Marlow travels to the Congo, in the heart of Africa to relieve a brilliant ivory trader named Krutz, who is working for the Belgium Government. While there is a complexity on British identity of Joseph Conrad, the role he played in the development of British literary history is significant. The writings of Conrad were not inherently English but…

Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic ,Chinua Achebe, in his book Things Fall Apart details colonization in Africa though the Africans point of view. Achebe's purpose is to humanize the Africans and to stand up for others who may be scared to speak on this topic. The writer adopts a powerful tone in order to change their poor stereotypes given to Africa by the Western people after the Christians set foot on their land. He also develops a strong individual Okonkwo and his family in…

Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness is a story filled with overwhelming condemnation of imperialism. This dark allegory describes the journey of the narrator, Marlow, into the dark interior of the African continent and his fascination with the mysterious Mr. Kurtz who dominates the inhabitants of the region. The power Mr. Kurtz holds over the natives enables him the ability to be the best and most economically savvy in the ivory trade. As Marlow moves through the story he becomes aware that…

Achebe wrote the novel as a rebuttal to previous depictions of Africa in novels by white authors such as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson (Alam, 102). While Africans were often portrayed as savage and uncultured in European literature, Achebe’s goal was to introduce the humanity of Africans…

In the 19th century, some powerful European countries expanded their countries to new territories, known as "colonialism." Both colonialism and contemporary globalization can lead to inter-state relations. In this article, I will compare Colonialism and contemporary globalization. Colonialism is defined as a policy or practice of "full or partial political control over another country, its occupation of settlers and its economic exploitation". Globalization means the integration of economy,…

In Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People, a recurring subject that causes issue is the subject of power in the country. In the time in which the book is set, Nigerian politics was ripe with corruption following its independence from Britain, who had been its territory since 1885, and with independence came greed for power from the elite of Nigeria. Although the book is set in an unnamed country, Achebe is most likely basing the events of the book on events that took place in postcolonial Nigeria.…