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Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” tells two interconnected stories. One follows Okonkwo, a villager whose path to power is obstructed by a series of misfortunes. The other depicts Umuofia, Okonkwo’s village, as it struggles to preserve its cultural heritage in the face of colonialism from the Western world. The title, “Things Fall Apart,” effectively captures…

Gulliver’s travels was written by Swift in 1772 and it is one of the most famous and also controversial literature pieces to come out of the 18th century. The novel is regarded as one of the best written satires and his ideology of corruption of society and human kind is still relevant to society in…

“And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather a leap of welcome. This, too, was myself.” Dr Jekyll’s recognition here unsettles the easy way of reading Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, where Hyde is imagined merely as a terrifying monster who must be destroyed….

In life, it is hard to come across a good book. Millions of books are published each year, all over the world. J.D. Salinger, the author of the Catcher In The Rye says, “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it…

Okonkwo’s main characteristics as he is depicted in the first few chapters are fearless, competitive, strong, manly, and a fighter etc. Okonkwo’s father’s characteristics are weak, lazy, improvident, and incapable of thinking about tomorrow. His father was a debtor and always owned neighbors money. He was tall but very thin and had a slight stoop….

The society depicted in Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, was one where men held dominion over everything while women had no power. In the Ibo tribe, women were considered possessions rather than beloved partners. It was common for men to have multiple wives, which symbolized their success. A man’s social standing relied on his…

Fantasy Rhetoric: Summary and Analysis of Katherine Fowkes’s Fantasy Films A Rhetoric Analysis consists of a multitude of attributes some larger than others and some not specifically require. Among those are certain attributes that are what provides the foundation of any Rhetoric work, Logos, Pathos, and Ethos or persuasive appeal. My job is to show…

Robert Browning’s quote “A man’s reach must exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” is very relevant to Dale Wasserman’ s play, Man of la Mancha. Characters are portrayed along the continuum with the realist as one extreme and the idealist as another. Browning speaks to the issue of these extremes and favors the…

The book Catcher in the Rye is a story of Holden Caulfield’s thoughts aboutlife and the world around him. Holden tells many of his opinions aboutpeople and takes the reader on a 5-day trip into his mind. Holden,throughout the book, made other people feel inferior to his own. I canrelate to this because although I…

In “Heart of Darkness”, Joseph Conrad presents Africa from the stereotypical viewpoint of European sailors, who often portrayed the indigenous people as savages. In contrast, China Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” offers a non-stereotypical portrayal by depicting the natives as members of a traditional society rather than as primitives or savages. The verifiable presentation of European…