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The Purpose of Things Fall Apart Thesis~The Show the Effects of…
The Purpose of Things Fall Apart Thesis~The Show the Effects of Colonialism
Theme Analysis
Your social status helps to determine how luxurious your life will be
Titles in the clan determine your lifestyle
"With a father like Unoka, Okonkwo did not have the start in life many young men had. He neither inherited a barn, nor title, nor even a young wife."
Okonkwo did not have a very good start to his life, because of the life his father lived and having no title to his name was detrimental.
Women had little to no status in society
Even as a little boy he had resented his father’s failure and weakness, and even now he still remembered how he had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was agbala. That was how Okonkwo first came to know that agbala was not only another name for a woman, it could also mean a man who had taken to title."
Women were considered to be below men in society
People with titles have more power over people without them
"Without looking at the man, Okonkwo had said: 'This meeting is for men.' The man who contradicted him had no titles. That was why he had called him a woman."
Okonkwo had several titles, but the man who contradicted him had no titles, so Okonkwo called him a woman, in other words puny and weak, because Okonkwo was above the other man.
"The Second Coming" by Yeats
Mere anarchy is loose upon the world
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
New Yorker "After Empire"
"Since the students came from different regions, they had to 'put away their different mother tongues and communicate in the language of their colonizers,' Achebe writes.
The colonizers forced the children to speak their language, and gave them a common language so they could all speak together.
Colonization
Colonization is when one country dominates or subjugates another by colonizing.
An article by National Geographic called "What is Colonialism" gives many examples of different times countries colonized, but one example is when Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome,
Ancient Egypt, and Phoenicia all started colonizing, they "drew on the physical and population resources of the people they conquered in order to increase their own power.
"Starting in the 1880s, European nations focused on taking over African lands, racing one
another to coveted natural resources and establishing colonies they would hold"