Things Fall Apart was written to describe Nigerian culture and the effects of European colonization upon it. It was also a response to the Western beliefs that the Africans were uncivilized and barbaric.
Achebe got most of his view from his own culture through the writing of Europeans. At first he related to the European writings, but as time went on, he felt they were poor caricatures and stereotypes of the actual people, and he tried to show this through his writing.
1- Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson, seen as a racist writing
2- The consequences of the European Colonization.
3- 'Things Fall Apart' was also said to be inspired / as a response to Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'.
The title comes from the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats which is about the demise of a society by colonisation:
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
He wrote Things Fall Apart to give an example of man's inhumanity against man.
Not only was Chinua Achebe a Nigerian, he was also educated under the English system and grew to hate the native Nigerian as an ignorant backwards culture. Only after further introspection did Achebe come to understand the beauty of his own culture when taken seperately from British influence.
Chinua Achebe wrote the book Things Fall Apart.
Various companies published this book by Chinua Achebe throughout the years, although it was first published by a smaller London publishing company which was later absorbed into a bigger one.
Chinua Achebe - Full name: Albert Chinualumogu Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart was written during the mid 1950's, but it was not published until 1958.
william butler yeats
the narrator is okonkwo
My publishing company.
Things Fall Apart was written and originally published in English.
Things Fall Apart was written before Arrow of God. Here the comparison is timewise.
Things Fall Apart was originally published in London.
yams in things fall apart symbolises wealth
Wrestling was the major sport in Things Fall Apart.
Things Fall Apart was written and originally published in English.
No, "Things Fall Apart" is a work of fiction. It is a novel written by Chinua Achebe and is not based on real events or people.
"Things Fall Apart" was originally written in English by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.
Things Fall Apart was written before Arrow of God. Here the comparison is timewise.
There is no such character in Things Fall Apart.
Things Fall Apart is a book, which counts as literature.
Things Fall Apart was originally published in London.
Yes, Nwoye is a boy in Things Fall Apart.
yams in things fall apart symbolises wealth
Wrestling was the major sport in Things Fall Apart.
The second half of Things Fall Apart deals with colonialism and its effects.
Things Fall Apart was the first significant English work written by a native Nigerian. It is an interesting representation of the earlier Nigerian civilization before white colonization.