In Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel‚ Things Fall Apart‚ the complex dynamic of European Colonialism in Africa is depicted through the story of the native Igbo society in Nigeria and its collision with the European Christian culture. Okonkwo‚ the main character in the novel‚ embodies the fundamental values of the Igbo society and fights throughout the novel to maintain the practice of Igbo tradition. The principles of Igbo culture are Okonkwo’s identity‚ and European invasion of the status quo displaces
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of the nine Ibo clans and ceased to exhist as men. There is a variation in the types of irony used by Achebe in this book. The first type of irony I’m going to analyze is tragic irony. After Okonkwo is exhiled he is visited by his friend Obierika. Obierika has been taking care of Okonkwo’s finances and when Okonkwo begins to thank him
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Upset by the fact that the white men have come and completely disregarded the Igbo sense of justice‚ Obierika points out the impossibility of the colonialists understanding anything about the Umuofians without speaking their language. Then he points out the foolishness of belittling unfamiliar customs. Obierika does not lay the whole blame on the white man’s side. He feels also that the Umuofians who have converted to Christianity have wrongly turned
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“Tradition is the illusion of permanence”-Woody Allen. The quote by Allen is sometimes interpreted as that things change‚ and as humans we hate change‚ so we have tradition as a way to preserve it‚ even though eventually it will disappear eventually. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ the main character Okonkwo faces a similar dilemma as foreigners bring new beliefs that entice his own clansmen and many of them abandon their old beliefs. Tradition has many benefits‚ such as having a cultural
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Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Chinua Achebe. This novel explains how imperialism affects a country. It also helps the reader visualize the drastic changes the Igbo culture had to experience when another country decided to expand their reign into Umuofia and the surroundings clans. Characteristics such as Okonkwo‚ who was the fearless leader of Umuofia‚ were immensely afflicted. After all‚ Things Fall Apart is a work about loss of culture and tradition. During the on-going conflict between
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‘How is your father?’ Obierika asked‚ not knowing what else to say. ‘I don’t know. He is not my father‚’ said Nwoye‚ unhappily. And so Obierika went to Mbanta to see his friend. And he found that Okonkwo did not wish to speak about Nwoye.” (Chapter 16) Both father and son have conveyed a wish to separate themselves from each other
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with the Igbo traditions decide to break away and confirm to Christianity. For example‚ Nwoye‚ Okonkwo’s son‚ does not believe in certain rules and is interested in Christianity. A couple years into Okonkwo’s exile‚ Obierika stumbles upon Nwoye among the missionaries in Umuofia. Obierika decides to visit Okonkwo for an explanation. “He finds that Okonkwo does not wish to speak about Nwoye. It is only from Nwoye’s mother that he hears scraps of the story” (Achebe 144). Okonkwo believes Nwoye is a disgrace
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Gloria Kissiedu World Literature 207 29 November 2011 Masculinity Things Fall Apart was written in the 1890s‚ when whites went to Nigeria. The novel shows the clash between the white ’s and the culture of the Igbo people. The novel is about a man named Okonkwo‚ and his growth for respect‚ fortune and power which in the end leads to his expected death. His great power did not come to an end because of colonization‚ but rather his downfall was his obsession with masculinity. The narrative of Frederick
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Things Fall Apart Chapter 1 1. Okonkwo brings honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat. 2. Unkona changes the subject because he was a coward and couldn’t bear the sight of blood. 3. Okoye needed to collect a past debt from Unkona because he was going to take the Idemili title‚ which was an expensive ceremony. 4. Okonkwo was a wealthy farmer‚ had two barns full of yams‚ and was married to three wives. He also taken two titles and had shown incredible prowess in two inter-tribal
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A story with the title that says it all‚ Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ is a novel of a man’s life falling apart. The publisher of Things Fall Apart is by the Anchor Books and the book was first published in the year 1959. This novel is a tragedy of a historical fiction story. Things Fall Apart has multiple themes such as the struggle between tradition and change‚ varying interpretations of masculinity‚ and languages as a sign of cultural difference. Things Fall Apart portrays the life of Okonkwo
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