Category: Things Fall Apart

How Women are Presented in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart For many years, in a lot of societies, women were oppressed, discriminated against, and ill-treated and the Igbo society is no different. Women of the Igbo were either in a high position and worshiped like goddesses, or abused, insignificant, and demolished, and the last is…

Is Okonkwo a Tragic Hero in Things Fall Apart? Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Chinua Achebe. The setting is during the late 19th, early 20th century in a village named Umuofia in Nigeria. When reading this novel the time period is important because it was a period in colonial history when the…

Comparing Women from Things Fall Apart with Women of Today Although the roles of Okonkwos wives in Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart appear very different from women today, much of that is actually superficial. Certainly women in Igbo society were expected to cook, clean, and raise the family. They were also expected to help with…

How Women are Presented in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart For many years, in a lot of societies, women were oppressed, discriminated against, and ill-treated and the Igbo society is no different. Women of the Igbo were either in a high position and worshiped like goddesses, or abused, insignificant, and demolished, and the last is…

Is Okonkwo a Tragic Hero in Things Fall Apart? Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Chinua Achebe. The setting is during the late 19th, early 20th century in a village named Umuofia in Nigeria. When reading this novel the time period is important because it was a period in colonial history when the…

Comparing Women from Things Fall Apart with Women of Today Although the roles of Okonkwos wives in Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart appear very different from women today, much of that is actually superficial. Certainly women in Igbo society were expected to cook, clean, and raise the family. They were also expected to help with…

Tragedy and Tragic Hero in Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart was known in its time as an extremely original book. It is responsible for the boom in African-written stories that drastically changed perspectives of African colonization and life. Not only was it known for being a novel that inspired African authors to write their…