In both novels the decline of the native culture is traced through the downfall of an individual, Okonkwo, in the first novel, and his grandson Obi, in the second. ... Native people of colonised regions were generally regarded as savage heathens by missionaries, but it is evident from Things Fall Apart that complex set of belief were in existence. ...
In contrast to what came in Conrad's novel about Africa and Africans, Achebe presents Africa in Things Fall Apart as a primitive civilized community; he rebuts the claims of Conrad by saying that Africans have families, religions, honors and titles, music, economy, laws and a court system, a tradition of wise saying and the art of conversation. ... In the novel, natives are chained together, working as slaves. ... In the character of Marlow, the author, taking no care of the natives, is criticizing imperialism for spending time in such uncivilized country of Congo. ... It's quite a ...
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe is a very dramatic book which shows direct examples of how the white man did not necessarily benefit native lands as much as they believed. ... When the British entered the Nigerian's land, they were not open to the beliefs of the native people. ... He never gained a title in the tribe, which was a man's main goal in this tightly nit community. ...
Achebe's novel shatters the stereotypical European portraits of native Africans. ... Achebe's Things Fall Apart derives its title from a line from William Butler Yeats" poem "The Second Coming," which foretells the end of the world. ... The use of titles in the village to determine status demonstrates that they had a hierarchy of sorts in place, much like we have judges, mayors, senators, and a president. ... Their use of titles also seemed to make up a sort of government. ... The economy also relates back to the titles, because titles were purchased within the clan. ...
By allotting titles to people in the village, the Ibo demonstrated that they had a hierarchy of sorts, much like Victorian Britain and present day America. Their use of titles made up a form of government. ... Although the Christian missionaries seemed to have a positive affect on Nigerian society with their aspiration to lend a helping hand, their motivations became deadly, even fatal to the lives of some native people. ... Although the natives and Europeans experienced many conflicts with each other, the result of the conflicts was the formation of an African country that possessed more A...
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