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This 5 page paper discusses Chinua Achebe's book "Things Fall Apart" with regard to the way in which the British colonize the villagers. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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portrait of a particular culture in a particular time and place, and how outside influences worked to change that culture. This paper answers several questions about the novel. Discussion There
is a substantial body of literature that analyzes this particular novel because of its intimate portrait of Igbo culture. However, we should remember that this is a work of fiction,
not a travelogue, and resist the assumption that everything Achebe says is fact. We should also guard against the tendency to judge the Igbo by our own standards; they have
a vibrant, well-organized and deeply spiritual culture, but one which most Westerners would consider primitive, and therefore probably less important than their own. Certainly the English who came to "civilize"
the savages would not have done so if they had believed that the Igbo culture was a viable one. The first point we want to consider is how the English
use the Africans culture against them, both its strengths and weaknesses. The way that Achebe describes the Igbo culture leads us to conclude that the culture itself is more important
than any one individual within it. Therefore, the Igbos believe that "a persons obligation to the society calls for cooperation. It calls for submission to the counsel of elders, the
precepts, and laws of the land, which are established for the good of the society" (Nnoromele). We know that there are nine villages that have established themselves in a sort
of loose confederation; taken together, we can see that these practices would give the Igbo community great strength. The English could then play upon this by suggesting that if the
Igbo were to adopt Christianity, they would be stronger still; such a pronouncement would be very appealing to a proud people. The society is weak, though, because it is fragmented.
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