Essays on Chinua Achebe

The literary criticism of formalism can be used to compare and contrast “No Witchcraft for Sale” by Doris Lessing and “The Sacrificial Egg” by Chinua Achebe, by analyzing the themes, characters and symbols of the two short stories. To start, each narrative is centered around...

Traditional wrestling among men is a common tradition in Western Africa, particularly in Igbo culture. In fact, many people consider wrestling a male dominated sport used as entertainment for people of higher classes. Wrestling was a way to communicate to tribes that spoke different languages,...

Societies began to adopt multiculturalism in the mid-twentieth century increasingly. The historical diversity was due to immigration, slavery, and colonization. In particular nation, the divisive nature began to raise necessary questions as diversity made the society to divide into the elites and oppressed. Therefore, it...

In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, various emotions are displayed by the characters including some serious topics like colonialism, tradition, repression, pride, and masculinity. The protagonist Okonkwo, a self-made man, experiences first hand what pride ultimately leads to: Death. His ultimate demise represented the...

In each culture, there tends to be roles that have to be fulfilled by means of members of its society. Gender roles are shown to people as soon as they are able to comprehend life. The ways humans deal with newborns according to their intercourse...

In Achebe’s book, “Things Fall Apart,” the author uses imagery to help the reader better understand the environment of the Igbo tribe. Imagery helps create a scene in the reader’s head, so that they can make connections and provide more meaning to the story. Achebe’s...

During the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, was the Age of Imperialism, or also known as the “Scramble for Africa”. The Europeans saw Africa as vulnerable and weak, so they easily invaded the villages and deprived them of their resources. The novel, Things Fall Apart,...

In the simple story, Things Fall Apart, the author Chinua Achebe writes about a “strong man” whose life is dominated by fear and anger. While pathetic fallacy is a literary device wherein the author attributes human emotions to inanimate objects. Achebe uses the weather in...

Tradition and culture, two aspects that make a person unique, what would happen to that person if they stopped believing their own tradition and culture? Chinua Achebe the author of Things Fall Apart (1953), is a very traditional man who feels that his roots and...

Achebe addresses, in his book No Longer at Ease, multiple clashes between a communal identity and an individual. Some of the parties in these conflicts are Obi, the main character of the book who gets a scholarship to study in England, Clara the partner of...