Question

Pick a theme from Things Fall Apart and explore how the author develops that theme through characterization, imagery, symbolism, or the use of irony. Support your argument with specific examples from the text.

Answer 1

One theme from Things Fall Apart is the complexity of Igbo society before the arrival of the Europeans. To assist this theme, Achebe incorporated the detailed explanations of the trial process and justice codes, family rituals, marriage customs, preparation processes of food and its production, divided leadership for the community, belief in religion and its practices, and the chances give to every man to be able to climb the clan’s ladder of triumph by his own doing.