Irreversible Situation and the Articulation of Disorder in Things Fall Apart
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https://doi.org/10.70042/eroth/07020005Keywords:
disorder, chaos, ambivalence, irreversibility, disintegration, cultural violence, toxic masculinityAbstract
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart shows cultural disintegration in the Igbo people represented by the protagonist Okonkwo and some others. This paper will show how the disintegration of that community creates an irreversible condition for the protagonist. Okonkwo can neither change society nor himself. Consequently, his death is inevitable. However, the disintegration is expressed in many ways in the novel. Initially, the disorder is found on the personal level; gradually the whole community surrenders before it after the arrival of the colonisers with their government and religion.
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