Category: Chinua Achebe
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Theme of Social Conflict in Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Half of a Yellow Sun
Defined as conflict between two or more opposing groups within a society in efforts to attain irreconcilable goals and prevent the advancement of an opponent, social conflict is a theme that is at the forefront of Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Half of a Yellow Sun, and their respective historical settings,…
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Short Story Analysis: ‘Marriage is a Private Affair’ by Chinua Achebe
The excerpt from Nectar in a Sieve and Marriage Is a Private Affair demonstrate the negative and the positive influences of modern ideas and modern ways on traditional cultures. To begin with, one of the pronounced positive influences of modern ways on traditional cultures in the excerpt from Nectar in a Sieve is the medical…
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The Tragic Hero In Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart
In this essay I am going to analyse the tragic role of the central character from the novel Things Fall Apart written by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in 1958, Okonkwo, who goes from having a good life and power within his clan to being a man driven to death by his misery and his…
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The Tragic Hero In Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart
In this essay I am going to analyse the tragic role of the central character from the novel Things Fall Apart written by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in 1958, Okonkwo, who goes from having a good life and power within his clan to being a man driven to death by his misery and his…
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Gender Roles in Things Fall Apart
In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, gender stereotypes profoundly influence the entire village, the Ibo society has a strict system of behavioral customs that are assigned by gender. They have restricted the freedom of Ibo women to present that Ibo men are superior to women and gender plays a large role in…
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Literary Devices In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
INTRODUCTION Things Fall Apart is an African novel written by famous Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. The novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader (chief) of an Igbo community. It follows the events leading up to his banishment from the community for accidentally killing a clansman, through the seven years of his exile, to his…
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The Human Condition in Things Fall Apart
The Human Condition is used to reference the qualities that comprise the imperatives of human existence. Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart, is one of literary merit, attracting readers worldwide for its use of universal themes. Things Fall Apart takes readers into Umuofian society, where Okonkwo is initially regarded as a warrior of the clan. As…
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Cultural Clash in Chinua Achebe’s Novel ‘Things Fall Apart’: Critical Essay
Chinua Achebe published his first novel Things Fall Apart in 1958. Achebe wrote his novel in response to European novels that depicted Africans as savages who needed to be enlightened by the Europeans. Achebe presents to the reader his peoples history with both strengths and imperfections by describing, for example, Igbo festivals, the worship of…
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Antilles of Savanna: The Postcolonial Problems Presented in Chinua Achebes Book
Chinua Achebe, emeritus professor of the University of Nigeria, one of the greatpioneers of modern African literature in English, who published several outstanding novels,among which Things Fall Apart (1958), has already become something like an Africanclassic, and who is not only known for his stories, essays, and children’s books but also forhis award-winning poetry, has…
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Igbo Society In Things Fall Apart
Thesis Things Fall Apart focuses and analyses Igbo society as shown in the novel, before and after arrival of missionaries to Umuofia, which led to clash of cultures. It also incorporates critical theory to analyze the novel. It is based on post-colonial criticism, as it is relevant to Achebes writings in Things Fall Apart. For…