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The novel "Things Fall Apart" depicts the life of Igbo people and particularly focuses on the life of Okonkwo, a great warrior and his downfall. It would not be wrong to say that Okonkwo was a Tragic hero whose fall was due to his own recklessness and short-temper. Even the opening lines of the novels derived from the W.B Yeats's The Second Coming give the impression of the chaos loosened upon the world of Igbo in the form of British imperialists. So the title of the novel Things fall apart tells the negative implications at the end of the novel. The novel is divided into three parts, the first part provides a description of the life of Igbo people of Africa with an understanding eye of the author, who is an African himself. The second and the third part chronicle the advent of the mighty wave of the Britishers who turned the world of Igbos upside-down. In first and second parts, we vaguely get the omen of future unfortunate happening for both our protagonist and the ...

Merits: 1. Igbo society is an epitome of meritocracy as it gives the even remotest and segregated individuals to climb to the highest ladder of the society. Our hero Okonkwo, whose father Unoka was certainly not a great man but due to his son's persistent hard work and determination, he achieved a high status in his society. 2. Igbo people respect their traditions and religiously follow it. And cultural traditions bind people together and give them a sense of identity and dignity. Even an arrogant person like Okonkwo bows before the priest, Ezeani, the priest of the earth goddess when he punished him for beating his wife during the week of peace. 3. Their Justice system is efficient to deliver justice to its people. There are no arbitrary decisions made by their law. Even a high-status person gets the same punishment for an offence as a poor one does. As it happened to Okonkwo who unintentionally killed the son of an elder person. For punishment, he had to leave the villa...

The character of 'Okonkwo" plays the role of protagonist in the novel "Things Fall Apart" written by Chinua Achebe. A powerful character who flaunts his prowess in wrestling from his childhood. Despite being a son of a lazy and idle father, Unuoka, he has no hesitation to toil under the harsh sun. He has no respect for his father because he led a wasteful life and died a painful death, probably didn't find a place of burial. All his life, Okonkwo keeps a thought of humiliation due to his unworthy father who didn't earn even a single title. His hatred against his father's life moulded him to become a hard, arrogant person from his childhood. When he became a respectful person later in his life, he also targets weak or low people who have no titles. One main characteristic of Okonkwo is his rashness and short-tempered nature. He never talked softly. For minute reasons, he beats his wife and sons but later he regrets internally but he never apologize...

Stanza 1 In the beginning lines of the stanza, the poet describes the turbulent times and a war-like situation in Africa by telling that the wind is blowing roughly and touching the yellowish-brown skin of the African people. On the lands of Kikuyu, a tribe of Kenya who like flies feed upon blood spilled on the "veldt" i.e. open fields. Th quantity of blood is so much that the poet called it a stream of blood. The beautiful land hailed by the poet as "paradise" is scattered with a large number of corpses. Silence prevails the land until "worm", a colonel shouts to his companions to not pity those who are dead. The poet says that the scholars and political observers give statistics of how enabling the colonial reign and policies are, but in reality, the rule has no bearing on the white child is brutally murder in his own bed by the members of Mau Mau terrorist group or the insignificant and inferior treatment of "savages" i.e. Kikuyu like Jews by...

The essay "Interrogating Post-colonialism : Theory, Text, and Context" is collection which Mukherjee has co-edited with Harish Trivedi. The essay is introductory and basically, a summary of the seminar held to discuss about the topic. It aims to evaluates the 'enabling' concept of Post-colonialism in decolonized countries. In late nineteenth century, there was trend and limelight on Imperialism which was the mantra of the European powers such as English, French, Spanish etc. to consolidate their influence on the new regions, especially the third world countries.  Whereas the twentieth century focuses on the another process, decolonialization and inception of the concept of Post-colonialism. This concept also find its place in the Department of English of all universities across the world. Post-colonial literary texts has also introduced in the curriculum at both school and university level. It also also become a matter of research and researchers are finding the pol...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, a noted English political and literary figure wrote this essay in 1835 and his recommendations were included in the English Education Act of 1835 along with Lord Bentinck's. The essay is about Macaulay's suggestion to fund education in India in English medium in rather than wasting 'limited' resources of British on Indian vernacular languages such as Sanskrit or Persian. The essay begins with his idea of educating people of illiterate India in foreign medium i.e. English. He is so proud of the language that at first, he doesn't find the need to point the benefits of English language. He then illustrates the worth of the language and the rich content available in the fields of History, Polity, Jurisprudence(law), Metaphysics, Governance and emphasizes that Greek is no superior to English from which it derived many things. He intends to build the confidence of aspiring learner by describing how all the sublime intellectual material, inclu...