TFA context and good phrases to use

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historical for intro

  • TFA is written on the cusp of nigerian independence and it is a historical novel

  • Achebe uses it to explore the process and effects of colonisation on cultures

  • Educates the african reader on customs and european reader on impacts

  • Achebe grew up between the two cultures (Christian parents, igbo priest grandfather)

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Okonkwo as the tragic hero

  • European archetype

  • Tension between African culture and European imposition

  • Shows the African character is nuanced (unlike portrayals in Western media like Heart of Darkness)

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“Nwoye who was now called Isaac”

  • Achebe had a name change - Albert to Chinua - showing his reconciliation with his heritage

  • Nwoye does the opposite of this - he is the inverse of the prodigal son

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Novel written in three parts

  • imitates gradual and insidious nature of colonisation and its impact

  • also a shift from digressing which is common in the Igbo oral culture to narrating things chronologically which shows the European influence

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Nature of the colonisers

  • tension between percieved benevolence of colonialism (bringing medicine and education) and its destructive consequences

  • present themselves as benign but their arrival leads to the downfall of Igbo traditional society

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context for conc

  • post colonial novel, asks the question of what to do with what has been left behind.

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catharsis

  • ‘purging of emotions’

  • the ending evokes fear as Okonkwo will be forgotten and the reader realises this could happen to anybody - all things we do in life are erased

  • it also evokes the sense of duty - okonkwo is helpless and there is nothing he can do to avoid this ending

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anagorisis

when okonkwo realises the clan has become too womanly and they fail to act. he gives up leading him to kill himself

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dramatic irony

the reader of the novel already knows what will happen to the culture and can recognise it before the characters in the novel can - highlights insidious nature of colonisation

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Yeats’ poem

  • theme of chaos in the poem aligns with portrayals of colonialism in Africa

  • written in the aftermath of WWI which shows parallels between post war Europe and colonial conquest.