Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe's novel, "," is a well written narrative about the Ibo community in Nigeria, Africa. Achebe took the title of the novel from a poem called "The Second Coming," by W.B. Yeats. It appears that Yeats is making some judgement on the European way of thinking that was so greatly affecting the rest of the world at the time. The poem describes human flaws resulting in social collapse. Achebe successfully holds on to the same theme in "Thing Fall Apart," as the narrarator tells the story of a small African society and the British colonizers that come to take over the Ibo community introducing new religion, technology, and government.
Yeats' poem implies that the final ...
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"Heart of Darkness," he writes, "A black figure stood up, strode on long black legs, waving long black arms...." In Achebe's essay, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness," he writes that, " Heart of Darkness projects the image of Africa as 'the other world,' the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization." Achebe wrote his novel to tell the misunderstood story of African society.
In the novel, the narrator tells the story of an African culture in it's complexity, including religion, tradition, and even a government with a judicial system. He gives life and character to the "dark" and "primitive" natives that Conrad describes, and Achebe writes the novel in a completely different style than "Heart of Darkness." Instead of getting even by stereotyping the whites as Conrad did the blacks, he plays the role of the better man by giving human characteristics, good ones as well as bad ones, to his white characters, as well as his black characters. ...
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