Uncivilization In Things Fall Apart Essay

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The idea of a nation colonizing another land is not unfamiliar and has been seen to occur ever since the 1700s. For centuries, the more ‘developed’ or ‘civilized’ nations of the world have sought out and competed against one another to gain land and to settle in a place where it is believed that civilization has not touched it yet. The act of colonizing another land is usually done because of a country’s own motives and purposes. Some nations colonize to gain and extract resources, while others do it to expand their own territory. The biggest colonizers of the world during the 1700s and 1800s were European nations. Countries such as Great Britain, France, Spain, and many others tried to settle in places they deemed exotic and uncivilized such …show more content…

Personas in “Things Fall Apart” such as Okonkwo are not rejected by the village. In fact, Okonkwo is seen as someone to look up to besides his exile and banishment. Okonkwo is seen as a strong warrior with lots of bravery and success, even when he had to redo his new farm and make a new harvest in his motherland. People like Okonkwo did not really suffer at the hands of their village and had a strong influence in the way their land was run. In contrast, those who did turn themselves into Christianity were people of clan who had been ostracized and forced to label themselves as outcasts. The Ibo people referred to such men and women as osu and did not let them participate in activities the rest of the clan did. As a result of being ridiculed by their fellow clansmen, the osu decided to join the new faith. Achebe describes the appeal the church had to outcasts and people alike when he writes, “These outcasts, or osu, seeing that the new religion welcomed twins and such abominations, thought that it was possible that they would also be received. And so one Sunday two of them went into the church” (155). The people who do join the church have nothing to really lose and the new faith seems to be more accepting of people despite whatever their origins and background may had been in their village. Christianity has an allure to

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