An exploration of the relationship between individual and community in the story Things Fall Apart

Introduction

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, is a powerful novel about the social changes that occurred when the white man first arrived on the African continent. In attempting to understand behavior in settings different from those in which the discipline evolved, causes for the failure to articulate the relationship between the individual and social change are explored. The novel is based on a conception of humans as self-reflexive beings and a definition of culture as a set of control mechanisms.

Discussion

Things Fall Apart is a brilliant depiction of the ...