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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…

Things Fall Apart: Foil A foil is a secondary character who shines light on the main character.The secondary characters in this novel are Ezeudu, Obierika, and Nwoye. Mail character is Okonkwo who shows many issues he has with the help from the secondary characters who highlights Okonkwo's wonderful and terrible qualities he has Achebe choose to have Okonkwo as a foil character to show the many different things that's he does wrong in this community. In this novel Things Fall Apart Chinua…

Cultural collisions are sometimes described as a war, though most times a cultural collision is a mere misunderstanding. Between disagreements or even forcing a religion or culture onto someone is where the collision begins. Okonkwo’s sense of identity was challenged with the introduction of western ideas into the Ibo culture. Okonkwo started out in the novel as very confident, but the cultural collision of the British colonists and Ibo people affected Okonkwo to the point of distress. The…

The Igbo tribe has been consumed, for lack of better words, with the idea of perfection. This is revealed throughout Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe by means of Okonkwo, the clan, and the religion. Okonkwo, for instance, is very adamant about being the most exemplary in his village. He wants to have the perfect family, the best crops, and a stellar reputation. Igbo tribes were very strict on their expectations of their members, if somebody doesn’t conform to their gender, religion, or they…

Cultural Collision Essay “ For the first time he desired, even craved something more than pleasing his father.” In Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”, Nwoye had finally found something that he believed in, something that didn’t make him as miserable as watching his father’s action towards family members and his “strive” to be perfect. His response to the cultural collision caused by the Western was not negative like his father’s was, but positive. But every other person’s lives…

In Purple Hibiscus, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illustrates a story of religion, abuse, and love. Ostensibly, Kambili Achike and her brother, Jaja, live happily in an enormous house with a father that the church regards as higher than God. However, within the walls of the house, Kambili and Jaja are restricted by their authoritative father, who physically punishes his family when he perceives that they have committed a sin. The siblings are unaware of the precarious environment they reside…

the destruction of the way of life experienced by the Igbo people in TFA. The line of the poem which lends its name to TFA is “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;” (Yeats 3). In TFA, white settlers bring Christianity to the Igbo tribe of Nigeria. The settlers are welcomed at first, but they soon threaten the Igbo way of life. The settlers build churches (150, Achebe),…

Literary Analysis of Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, gives prominence to a developed and influential leader Okonkwo. Okonkwo journeys through Africa and the nine different villages. He comes off as inferior, however he lives in constant fear that he is weak inside. “Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness […] It was not external, but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of…

“Scramble for Africa” was well under way, and British colonist influence began to appear in Nigeria as well as the presence of missionaries, who brought with them the word of God. Colonization, is the migration of a large quantity of one or more groups to a colonial area, whom keep links with their country to obtain special rights and privileges over others previously residing there. Colonization efforts within Nigeria can be dated back to the 1700’s, but colonization itself has existed for…

Nigeria is located in Western Africa and is the most populated state throughout the whole continent. Nigeria’s population in 2013 was estimated at 174 million people. Among those, there were around 86 million females, and almost 88 million males (Statistical Report of Men and Women in Africa). Within the female gender, 64.5% of women 15-64 work, while an average of 70.3% of men work regularly. This number of women in the workforce has increased greatly from 37.2% back in 1966. This country, as…