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Chinua Achebe's No Longer At Ease, Moliere's Tartuffe, William Shakespeare's King Lear and Irony

daughters. This structurally ironic situation creates the entire basis for the plot of King Lear, as it quickly becomes apparent...

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease

In six pages this paper examines the impact Westernization had on Africa as portrayed in these novels by Nigerian author Chinua Ac...

'No Longer at Ease' by Chinua Achebe

one side or the other. He is therefore an unbiased observer in many ways. We see him confused and perhaps even astounded that raci...

Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

Authors thesis and supporting arguments: With the previous information at hand it seems evident that part of his thesis is simply ...

Overview of Sociolinguistics

As the author clearly indicates, the definition of contextualization cues includes the aspect of contextual presupposition, the as...

Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Kurtz, as one of the main indictments against imperialism. As this suggests, while granted that there is a much to praise in Conra...

Comparative Character Analysis of Olunde in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Obi in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease

their native primitive cultures and European colonial modernization. Back in the 1940s, few Nigerians were accorded the opportuni...

Achebe: The English Presence in "Things Fall Apart"

precepts, and laws of the land, which are established for the good of the society" (Nnoromele). We know that there are nine villag...

Themes in "Things Fall Apart"

Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...

Culture and Humanity: Things Fall Apart and The Gods Must Be Crazy

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

doing so (Kingwood College Library). However, he accidentally kills another member of the tribe and is sent into exile for 7 years...

Things Fall Apart by Achebe

traditions and practices. It may not really even matter if the details are incredibly accurate in light of the fact that they may ...

Comparison of Chinua Achebe and Laura Esquivel

a failure, his life becomes dominated by fear that "he should be found to resemble his father" (Achebe 13). Repeatedly, Achebe sho...

Ode to a Nightingale and Dead Man’s Path

for home,/ She stood in tears amid the alien corn" (Keats 65-67). In contrast Achebes story is about a man who has just obtained...

How Culture and Religion Shape Each Other

The pot fell and broke in the sand. He heard Ikemefuna cry, My father, they have killed me! as he ran towards him. Dazed with fear...

Imperialism/Things Fall Apart

"earth cannot punish me for obeying her messenger (i.e., the shaman)-A childs fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which ...

Marxism and the Tragedy of Okonkwo

Okonkwos, as seen in the words of another author who notes, "The labour of colonial peoples was exploited on plantations and in mi...

The Male Gender in Achebe and Eliot

close examination of life in an English village in the 19th century; Things Fall Apart is Chinua Achebes look at life in an Africa...

Okonkwo

This paper contends this important character from Chinua Achebe's novel mirrors the impacts of colonization. There is one source ...

Things Fall Apart Examines Colonialism

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is in many ways both an indictment of colonial England's arrogance and ignorance about African c...

Nigerian Characters in Two Novels

commanding warrior, whose exploits had become legendary among the Igbo villagers. Unfortunately, Okonkwo was more successful on...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and the Protagonist Okonkwo

In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Okonkwo featured in Chinua Achebe's novel in terms of how the Ibo culture i...

Writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Chinua Achebe on Society and the Individual

In 5 pages this paper considers how the authors portray society and the individual in the character of Janie Crawford in Zora Neal...

Africa and Nation State Curse

In five pages this paper discusses how the nation state has cursed Africa in a consideration of Basil Davidson's Black Man's Burde...

Character Analysis of Ezinma in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

She follows the traditions and the culture in order to adhere to rules that might save her strength and her health. She does not c...

Idea of Freedom and Things Fall Apart

In four pages Chinua Achebe's novel is considered within the context of freedom and how its quest is represented in protagonist Ok...

Animal Characteristics and Ambrose Bierce

In a paper consisting of eight pages Bierce's mirroring of human and animal characteristics is explored and these traits are compa...

Japan and Western Influences

a most honorable system, and one that idealistically we as westerners claim that we choose to emulate. It is a historical fact t...

Pride, Prejudice, and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In six pages this paper discusses the impact of prejudice and pride upon Nigeria's Ibo village in this analysis of the dialogue an...