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Overlapping Character Variations in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Williams' social classification helps bring to the fore the complexity of the characters in Achebe's novel, while also shedding light on the elaborate composition of pre-colonialist African civilization. [...]Williams' categories provide the means to examine the African characters...

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description Williams' social classification helps bring to the fore the complexity of the characters in Achebe's novel, while also shedding light on the elaborate composition of pre-colonialist African civilization. [...]Williams' categories provide the means to examine the African characters' varying reactions to the advent of European colonialists and thus help explain why the Umuofian society eventually falls apart. [...]as Robert Wren argues, "Igbos do not exist in a bubble-like culture that determines their thinking and actions, but are individuals who, with the cultural resources available to them interpret [. . .] the world" (qtd. in Kortenaar 773). According to Williams, "individuals have varying innate potentialities, and thus receive social influence in varying ways" (83). [...]for Williams, a simplistic division of individuals in their relationship to society as one of either conformity or nonconformity to social rules is unacceptable (83). [...]one could apply the same individual/social stratifications to the colonized territories and the British countryside.
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subjects Achebe, Chinua
Ambiguity
Bildungsroman
Capitalism
Civilization
Classification
Colonialism
Colonies & territories
Culture
Epic literature
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Fate
Folklore
Heroism & heroes
Imperialism
Literary characters
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Literary translation
Literature
Logic
Narratives
Nigerian literature
Novels
Postcolonialism
Readers
Society
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