Themes
According to things fall apart the themes include greatness and ambition Okonkwo is determined to be a lord of his clan. Other themes seen in the novel are fear, tribal belief, justice, masculinity and social disintegration.
Symbolism
The symbolism in the novel things fall apart is fire where the main character Okonkwo is described in term of fire and frames and his nickname is ‘Roaring Flame’ in the novel fire symbolizes life, masculinity and potential.
Tone
Tone is the author’s attitude toward the subject. According to things fall apart some of the attitude include optimist, seriousness, humorous, seriousness, bitterness, joyful, earnestness and pessimism. The tone in the novel is revealed though choice of words and details.
Figurative language
This is where the author describes something by comparing it with something else. In the novel things fall apart, there is the use of figurative language. The most common used features are the use of alliteration, metaphor and similes
Setting
The setting of things fall apart is of a rural set-up; Umuofia and Mbanta village of the Igbo tribe in Nigeria and it was around 1900 century .
Purpose
The main purpose of Achebe’s is to write a tragedy following Aristotle’s definition. The tragedy is a drama that tells the story of fall of a person of high status.
After having Psyche whipped by Worry and Sadness and then mocking her for conceiving a child in a sham marriage, Venus ordered Psyche to sort out a great mass of mixed wheat, barley, poppyseed, chickpeas, and lentils, and that she must do it by dawn. Venus then goes to a wedding feast, and a kind ant brings several other ants to do the work for her. Angry, Venus gives Psyche a crust of bread. Psyche then learns that Cupid is also in the house, suffering from his injury, sustained when Psyche spilled hot oil on him.
Venus then insists that Psyche cross a river and gather golden wool from some violent sheep belonging to the sun. Intending to drown herself, Psyche receives advice form a divinely inspired reed and gathers the wool caught on briers.
The third task Venus gives Psyche is to collect water from the source of the River Styx in a crystal vial. Jupiter, moved by Psyche's plight, sends his own eagle to do the work for her.
Finally, Venus sends Psyche to the Underworld to get some of Porsopina's beauty. Instructed how to go about this task by the tower from which Psyche was going to fling herself, Psyche retrieves the box from Porsopina, and is barely back in the light of day when she opens the box out of curiosity and ends up in a deep Stygian sleep.
However, by this point, Cupid has healed and escaped his mother's house. He flies to Psyche, revives her, puts the sleep back into the box, and flies Psyche to present the box to Venus.
<span>Jupiter then gives his blessing to the marriage, orders Venus to back off, and gives Psyche some ambrosia, allowing Psyche and Cupid to be wed as equals.</span>
D. Precocity
The precocity of young chess players is evident when winning competitors are under age twelve. Precocity means a skill development much earlier than normal, it makes sense within the context of child chess prodigies.
The subject is who performs the action indicated by the verb in the sentence. So you can find the subject by asking who to the verb. In this case the question is who are on this elevator, whose answer is too many people. That is the complete subjec. The simple subject is the main word of the subject; it does not include the modifiers. So <span>the simple subject is people.</span>
