"Culture Conflict" in Things Fall Apart

The advent of white people affected the religious beliefs of Umphia and caused cultural conflicts. People of umuofia have many gods. Agbara - God of hills and caves. "People are coming from a distance, please consult" (12). When people make controversies with neighbors, people consult it, and they can discover their future from this god. Zhi is also a personal god and judges people through their work. They also believe that if they say so, their wisdom will also be told.

The collapse of Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe is a story about personal beliefs and customs, and a story about conflict. There is a struggle between wart's family, culture and religion. It is due to the difference in personal beliefs and customs between warts and the UK. Okonkou, the hero, also has a strong opinion. Then I will introduce the opinion of his village Umuofia. - The concept of balance of things is different from Achebe. From the excerpt of Yeats' poetry 'Second coming', the concept of balance is emphasized as important. Without balance, order will be lost. In the novel, the Ibo culture seems to depend on many balance systems. When these systems become uneasy, things will collapse.

The way of thinking about the novel is far from the cultural concept of things The novel "collapse of things" is said by Chinua Achebe about personal beliefs, customs and conflicts. There is a struggle between family and culture, which includes concepts of culture and values ​​and traditions in culture. The word culture is Latin, meaning cultivation. Culture has several meanings; it may mean cultivation, fertilization, breeding and planting ... this story occurs in the era of colonization and imperialism except for this age This is from the African perspective. Achebe's work is not an exaggeration to say that it is developing mainly about the unique hero Okonkwo, his beliefs, and how colonization of white men affects African society. This novel can be linked to discussion in our class.