Chinua Achebe Essay Examples and Topics

The issues of race and identity in Things Fall Apart stem from the Europeans’ determination to impose their ideologies on the Ibo people. On one hand, the native tribes adhere to strict belief systems that dictate their social lives. Just as the men are superior…

If we look around at the whole universe today, there are tons and millions of cultures centered everywhere around the globe. With this much cultures in the universe, people are bound to believe that they’re all divergent. Even though they are dissimilar in some aspects,…

Often, children feel as if they have to live up to their parents and their expectations. This was not the case for Okonkwo; throughout the book, he is haunted by the incompetence of his lazy father, Unoka, who was a disgrace to him and his…

It was a serious problem that traditional culture was destroyed by the invasion of Western civilization while Nigeria was invaded by Britain in the 19th century. The story “Dead Men’s Path” begins when Michael Obi is promoted to the headmaster of Ndume Central School. He…

Traditions have consistently been unaltered, obsolete, and seen today as unconventional, as society keeps on modernizing at a fast pace. Michael Obi, the focal character in the story Dead Men’s Path, endeavors to carry off traditionalism at his new position, while ingraining his convictions of…

The symbolism in these stories both have this colonial theme. In Dead Men’s path, the path represents the importance of traditional beliefs and practices. the path passing through the garden of the school, it symbolizes the way that traditions cuts through the new, modern ways…

In the short story: Dead Man’s Path, Michael Obi emerges as headmaster of a school in Ndume. Michael Obi was a 26 years-old well-educated man. Obi becomes irritated when he sees a lady part through the flowers outside of the school. As a result, Obi…

Things Fall Apart, written by the foundational figure Chinua Achebe, problematizes the regular social norms of men and women in Umuofia. Through the repetition of using words that are unique to the peoples culture, we are able to become “insiders” as we read about the…

In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, the main character lives in africa, and transitions from childhood to manhood with no help from anyone. His father was not a working man and he owed tons of people money but never did anything…

 In the novel Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe talks about cultural differences in Nigeria. Various characters like Okonkwo withstands the factional and religious regulations because he perceived that they are not “manly” and that he could not acquire an adequate amount of masculinity if…

A ‘terrible legend’, as showed by Greek intellectual, Aristotle, is ‘a man who is neither a paragon of greatness and value nor encounters the change to hardship through any veritable offensiveness or treachery however since of some misunderstanding.’ In the novel Things Fall Apart, made…

Every culture has different expectations when it comes to gender roles in Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, wrote about the Ibo culture and their lifestyle for most of the book to reflect the way they lived, so we could…

Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Chinua Achebe in 1958. The main character, Okonkwo, is a tragic hero. The reader sees his rise to success and his following destruction because of his hamartia: his obsession of not becoming like his father, who represents…

In every society, a person may have a voice, but not all voices hold power. In Dalton Trumbo’s depressing novel Johnny Got His Gun and Chinua Achebe’s cultural story Things Fall Apart, several characters reveal this struggle through their actions and thoughts. Joe from Johnny…

An Author’s writing style choices can affect or enhance how the story plays out. In his, African Trilogy Chinua Achebe uses different writing styles throughout his novels. Chinua Achebe uses different writing styles such as symbolism, setting, and foreshadowing, to somewhat indirectly express ideas such…