Igbo people

Power has the ability to overcome and make anyone in its way obsessed with having it. Power can turn even the best, most moral people into people full of greed and hate. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the Ibo tribe is becoming oppressed and disrespected by the arrival of Christian Missionaries. Achebe shows us through the imprisonment of the tribe leaders and the forcing of the Missionary 's government onto the tribe that a thirst for power can destroy and break things apart.…

A central conflict in human society is a divide between obedience and autonomy. People are by nature, herd animals, with a need for the security of knowing their place in the world. In Erich Fromm’s essay, “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem,” states that by being obedient, we gain a measure of the power that we worship, be it the Church or the State or a charismatic leader, and we become strong. We become righteous. It frees us of thought and of the accusation of wrong-doing…

Genders are talked about a lot throughout the story Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and their roles and importance to the clans and families. Okonkwo is one person that thinks that genders are really important and that each gender knows their purpose in life and what they are supposed to do. He believes that a man is the dominant sex and leader to his clan while the women are less important and remain servants in the home. Okonkwo’s beliefs about gender roles affect the way him and his family…

will obtain motivation to conquer. Eventually, not possessing the right of religion will evidently rise up as a problem for the people who obtain passion for their religion.Consequently, the diligent working people apart of the communities continue to lose their freedom, and proceed to worry about the consumption of their freedom. Colonialism does not help native peoples because it previously divides and ruins our…

fall apart. This shows how the pride of the Igbo people was so great that they were not able to see that the missionaries would be the cause of their tribe’s downfall. This quote means that the members of the clan cannot move Okonkwo’s body, because he has killed himself and that is an offense against the Earth. The men are telling the white men that they should move him because they are strangers to the clan. This shows how important customs are to the people of Umuofia, and that they must obey…

established hero. Okonkwo was a man of war and a member of high status in Igbo village. He was a successful farmer who was admired by the villagers. Okonkwo represented their cultural values by his hard-working, powerful nature.“Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid…

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 to be very unfortunate but typical of our violent human species. This underlying disregard and lack of compassion for anyone who appeared vulnerable, especially by the main character, Okonkwo, contributed to “things falling apart” in the…

Not only did Okonkwo and Caesar live in different periods of time, but also in different geographical locations. Okonkwo lived in Africa, and Caesar lived in Italy. The Igbo culture was an important aspect for the people living in the Umuofia Clan, similarly to the Roman culture that Caesar grew up in. In Rome, there government system was a republic with an emperor and senates, where as in Umuofia, they had well respected warriors and chiefs…

Showing emotions especially for men, is considered shameful, because only women can show emotions, and this is the case in many parts in the world. Men in the Igbo society are challenged to prove their power and how they are emotionless. Showing emotions especially for men is not acceptable for them. They will be considered weak and will lose all the respect they had from the men. Okonkwo was from these men that are afraid to look weak, or even to show emotions. He was trying extra hard to look…

the Igbo tribe during the 19th century in Nigeria, Africa. A major theme in the story is the definition of masculinity. What is masculinity? “The possession of the qualities traditionally associated with men.” This theme is conveyed many ways throughout the story. It is shown by the roles of men and women, the way Okonkwo expects his sons to act, how Okonkwo acts himself, and the way the men of the tribe act/ treat women. The roles of the women and men are extremely different in the Igbo…