Okonkwo the main character of my other chosen text, Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart is a well-revered man from a meritocratic society, a society that respects a man for his achievements alone. ... The freedom is there throughout the novel to stay and discover or live in ignorance, which is in contrast to Achebes Things Fall Apart where the reader is not given the freedom to choose, only to accept how it is, whether they ethically agree or not, thus showing the arrogance of Achebe. Conrad's text is a disturbing tale; he uses fact-based drama to backup his intentions to bring colonialis...

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Relating to this idea, people fearing of time propose them to do many inferior things depending on their jobs. ... "They yearned for resurrection of their own body because they wanted to remain the same person with the same name"2 In the Indian culture , the Suttee or a widow burning was a dominant practice for the people during the British colonialism, where women were oppressed to be burned with her husband in this practice , as a mean of the so called a "true-wife" , it was probably applied to a women whose faithful devotion to her husband during his life time3. ... In this way they are im...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate