Essays on Things Fall Apart

Gender The African clan of Umuofia described by Chinua Achebe in ”Things Fall Apart” is highly differentiated by gender. In this lesson, you’ll learn about the different roles men and women serve in the novel. Gender Roles Think about the different jobs you see people do every day. Can you think of any that women...

  Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, published in 1958, has caught the eye of such a wide variety of Africans and non-Africans. It is the most fantastic work in modern times. It portrays the African culture through the Igbo society, their superstitions and non-secular rituals. This novel is both a response to and a record of...

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) has been a classic of African literature almost since its publication, confronting head-on the process of first European contact with the Ibo. Throughout this essay we will ask ourselves how religion establishes itself not only as one of the central themes through which the story is told, but is...