Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a widely-acclaimed novel that has been read and studied for decades. It is considered one of the most influential works of African literature, with themes and symbolism woven in to depict the culture and experiences of Igbo people from Nigeria. Uncovering the Themes…

Things Fall Apart: Character List by Chinua Achebe is an essential guide for any reader of the classic novel about life in an African tribe. This comprehensive list contains all principal and minor characters from the novel, providing a detailed background on each individual as well as their role in…

William Butler Yeats uses the phrase “Things fall apart” in conjunction with a lot of Christian imagery in his poem “The Second Coming”; Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian writer has used the first four lines of Yeats’ poem in his world acclaimed novel “Things Fall Apart”, which is named after a…

Through the story of Okonkwo and his community, Achebe shows how local traditions and cultural practices in a sense fell apart in the new externally generated pressures that arose as a consequence of colonization. The story focuses on the tragic fall of Okonkwo, the protagonist, and the Igbo culture after…

             Chinua Achebe is one of the great postcolonial writers from Nigeria. His choice of language and his themes always point to his fellow Africans and their struggles against the imperialist invaders from Europe.  The overlying theme of the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua…

In the story of things fall apart, why do many in umuofia feel differently from okonkwo about the white mans “new dispensation”? In what ways do “religion and education” go “hand in hand” in strengthen the “white mans medicine”? Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is one of the few texts…

The “voice” of the narrator plays animportant part of the style by which Chinua Achebe conveys the central message of Things Fall Apart – the gradual disappearance of the Igbo culture and way of life, and the intrusion of the Western lifestyle which eventually and completely displaces it. The narrator’s…

Cultural Change In the novel “Things Fall Apart”, Achebe has challenged readers to actively involve themselves in analyzing the issues that are raised within the entire text. The author brings out the issue of tradition verses change to the forefront of the Igbo and Umuofia society for the reader to…

Achebe’s novel and masterpiece has its setting in the Igbo homeland, southeastern of Nigeria. Chinua Achebe did the novel setting in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Achebe provides a vivid and affectionate description surrounding the Ibo clan culture. The novel also centralizes much of its focus on the life…

Chinua Achebe uses the poem of the “The Second Coming” to find a of his book, Things Fall Apart. Achebe utilizes the tone and mode of this poem extremely well by setting the tone of the novel quite accurately (Achebe, 1958). The persona of the poem brings out the chaos…