Everything Falls Apart

received many awards for these works including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for his poetry book titled “Beware Soul Brother (no awards for short stories but they are critically acclaimed), but not any piece compared to his novels. After “Things Fall Apart,” Achebe wrote four other novels centered around the African biases and the cultural life of Nigerians that western civilization had not yet seen. The first was titled “No Longer at Ease,” the second “Arrow of God,” his third was “A Man of the…

A single syllable declared by a nurse at birth hinders the entire future of individuals from the very first moment they enter this world. Be it a boy, the parents, beaming with pride, may begin to pick out shades of blue for the nursery, and fill its walls with toys trucks and army men. They dream of raising a strong and righteous man with aspirations of duty and intellect. Be it a girl, they fondle her as glimpses of the subsequent pink bedspreads, dainty dolls and adorable outfits flash in…

downfall caused by a tragic flaw, or hubris. The protagonist then falls from grace, losing all he once had. This is the case in the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The main character, Okonkwo, is a man of high standing in Igbo society who builds his way up from the low status he was raised in by his unreliable father. His hard work brought him a good yam farm, three wives, and several children. Okonkwo then experiences a fall from grace, losing status and fortune, and is exiled from his…

One of the overarching themes in the novel Things Fall Apart was that in Ibo society, anything that was considered strong meant having a manly characteristic and anything deemed to be weak meant having a womanly characteristic. The men of the village tend to keep their wives under submission, the wives are servile to their husbands. Also, men who are not successful, such as those without a title, are sometimes referred to as women in a demeaning manner. I found the treatment of the Igbo woman…

European presence isn’t introduced until the last third of the novel as the reader has to be engaged with the Igbo culture and the people and care about what happens to them. The title of the book is Things Fall Apart and the European presence is a contribution to things falling apart. This is how the book should be written for the story to have meaning and be impactful. 12. Umuofia changed a lot during Okonkwo’s exile. European influence and the church had increased strength over the village…

have been able to read stories about Christ, or stories they are reflective of the Gospel. This trimester was no different. In Candide we see men search to find they explanation for how evil and a just God could exist in the same world. In Things Fall Apart we see the comparison of the Igbo tribes and Christian doctrine. Throughout this trimester we have continuously seen how character’s choose to embrace or reject God’s…

boy constantly. Okonkwo view of the world mirrored that of his culture. His society’s views of work ethic, and the generational shame left to him by his father, produced in Okonkwo, a man who defined his worth through the eyes of his community. Everything Okonkwo stood…

European government, religion, and attitudes to people otherwise deemed “savage.” The effect of this process of colonialism has been famously documented in two widely different novels, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1959). Both of these writers, to great extent, portray the negative effects that colonialism had on the African people, with Conrad…

love. Romeo and Juliet are good at forgiving each other and they also have a great amount of trust with each other. Romeo and Juliet are in love because, Romeo comes back for Juliet after he was banned from Verona, Romeo would rather be dead than apart from Juliet, and Juliet forgave Romeo after the death of her cousin Tybalt. When Romeo was banned from Verona he had to leave to mantua and leave behind his newly wedded wife Juliet, he had to leave because he killed her cousin, the prince was…

of the dramatic irony is "On the murderer this curse I lay (on him and all the partners in his guilt):- Wretch, may he pine in utter wretchedness! And for myself, if with my privity he gain admittance to my health. I pray the curse I laid on others fall on me" (line 280). This quote is a dramatic irony because this quote tells me that Oedipus didn't know that he have killed his real father whose name is king Laius, he was the king of Thebes. Oedipus grew up knowing that Polybus is his real…