What is the government in Things Fall Apart?
Achebe describes a colonial government that subdues the Igbo people without requiring the missionaries to learn their language or try to understand the Igbo traditions and ways. (The first church representative, Mr. Brown, is the exception in being accommodating to Igbo language and customs.)
What does Okonkwo want to do to the government?
Okonkwo has planned since his first year in exile to rebuild his compound on a larger scale. He also wants to take two more wives and get titles for his sons.
What does Mbaino mean?
four settlements
Mbaino This community name means four settlements. Mbanta The name means small town and is where Okonkwo’s mother comes from, his motherland, beyond the borders of Mbaino (Ikemefuna’s original home).
What does Umuofia represent?
The village of Umuofia is the symbolic heart of Things Fall Apart, as well as the setting for much of the novel’s action. Umuofia, where the protagonist, Okonkwo, lives for most of the novel, serves to represent Nigerian village society, both before and after contact with the colonizing forces of the British Empire.
Did things really fall apart in Things Fall Apart?
Through a close and transactional reading of the novel this study demonstrates that Igbo’s culture and religion didn’t fall apart but changed and in fact, what falls apart in Things Fall Apart is Okonkwo, the protagonist of the novel.
What did Mr Brown do in Things Fall Apart?
Mr. Brown, the first white missionary to travel to Umuofia, institutes a policy of respect and compromise between the church and the clansmen. He engages in long religious discussions with Akunna in order to understand the Igbo traditions, and he builds a school and a hospital in Umuofia.
Why did Okonkwo get imprisoned?
The English District Commissioner of the courts comes to Okonkwo’s house backed by armed men, and plans to arrest him for killing the court messenger.
How does Okonkwo react to the missionaries?
Okonkwo’s violent reaction to Nwoye’s conversion is typical; he immediately wants to kill the Christians. He recalls that he is popularly called the “Roaring Flame.” Then he blames the “effeminacy” of his son on his wife and his father and then on his own chi.
How many wives Okonkwo have?
three wives
Okonkwo -The protagonist Okonkwo has a warrior complex and is a leader of the Igbo community of Umuofia. He despises his father Unoka because he sees his as lazy and weak. He has three wives and many children. Ekwefi – She’s the second wife to Okonkwo and the mother to his daughter Ezinma.
Is Agbala male or female?
In Igbo culture, women are considered weaker than the men and thus it’s an insult to men to be called an agbala. Okonkwo is acutely aware of what it means to be a man in the Igbo tribe and is ashamed that someone might call him or his male relations agbala. “He belongs to the clan,” he told her [Okonkwo’s eldest wife].
What influenced the decisions made in Umuofia?
What influence did the oracle have on decisions made in Umuofia? The men didn’t go to war unless the reason was accepted by the oracle. What were Okonkwo’s greatest fear and greatest passion? his father loved.
Why is Okonkwo’s exile ironic in Things Fall Apart?
In the seven years that Okonkwo was exiled, things began falling apart in his village. In only seven years, Okonkwo does not recognize his village. The irony is in the fact that Okonkwo cannot get his village leaders to go to war. To have a been such a strong leader, now Okonkwo has lost his authority.