YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
Essays 31 - 60
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...
a most honorable system, and one that idealistically we as westerners claim that we choose to emulate. It is a historical fact t...
Okonkwo was like that, and the fact that his contemporaries in the village considered some of his traits excessive is communicated...
This paper contends this important character from Chinua Achebe's novel mirrors the impacts of colonization. There is one source ...
which the British officer solicits his aid illustrates the bipolar reaction of Ezeulu verses the office who has been appointed to ...
In six pages this essay discusses how women's positioning in Umuofian society reveals much about its culture as represented in Ach...
daughters. This structurally ironic situation creates the entire basis for the plot of King Lear, as it quickly becomes apparent...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages Achebe's classic novel is considered in terms of the individual and community interrelationship a...
In six pages this paper examines the impact Westernization had on Africa as portrayed in these novels by Nigerian author Chinua Ac...
the point of view of many minor characters, one of which is Nwoye, Okonkwos son. In many ways, Nwoyes story contributes to the no...
In five pages this paper examines the conflict associated with social change is examined in a comparative analysis of these texts....
In this essay consisting of two pages the writer presents the argument that Okonkwo's failure to conform to society in all matters...
This essay consisting of four pages considers how the protagonist satisfies the tragic hero criteria as defined by Aristotle offer...
of language, but a commonality of viewpoint and a commonality of assumption. This brings up the question of the extent to which ...
the traditional society to fall apart," observes G.D. Killam. "Okonkwo is unable to adopt to the changes that accompany colonialis...
tactics. There is a great disparity between the haves and the have nots. The health conditions are horrible with no running water ...
the society, and like any good leader or member, he finds that he must make personal sacrifices in order to maintain a balance in ...
beyond the fact that the English essentially control them and find a level of peace somehow. But, in the end it seems that each ch...
power in many ways. The more titles the greater the power. And, in a social perspective as it involves the government system, this...
different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...
could have begotten a son like Nwoye, degenerate and effeminate(Achebe 143). In fact, the barbaric way in which the women are bea...
him. He is a man who holds to the laws of his people, he is strong and courageous, and he is fairly well defined. But events take ...
change, most notably the changes that take place in relationship to a leading member of the old tradition, Okonkwo. Okonkwo is ...
This act served a dual significance - it ended Okonkwos life and anguish, and it was a parting shot to the Christianity that had t...
has absolutely certainty in his own value and the value of his "modern" ideas. However, by rejecting older, more traditional appro...
structure and appreciate its cathedral-like atmosphere. Stereotypes images of what a synagogue ought to look like...do not match t...
of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...
of American reaction to Japans surrender is wrong. While undoubtedly many Americans stationed in Japan still hated the Japanese be...
gotten his teaching certificate and then gone on to work for several years in education-at least enough to get noticed and promote...
1902 novel Heart of Darkness is widely acknowledge as a literary classic that provides considerable psychological insight into the...