Colonialism reflected in Chinua Achebe s novel Things Fall Apart
In the first part of the novel, the reader gets the picture of a entire static society. ... Its social system that has been portrayed as very convincing and logical in the first part of the novel, is about to fall apart, and the old unity of law and order is gone. ... Brown approaches to the villagers and so he “came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith (Things Fall Apart, p. ... “He saw things as black and white. ... Smith´s eagerness soon provokes a fight between the clan and the church which leads to a battle between the colonial government and the clan. ... They are encouraged to the defection by other suffering human beings, like a wealthy farmer´s women, who is expecting twins again. ... And also Nwoye, Okonkwo´s sensitive son grasps the new belief. ... He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart” (160) Okonkwo embodies the stiffness of his society in a very extreme and coated way.