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Portraying the Relationship between Cultural Fall and the Hero’s fall in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

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  • Sandamali K. P. S

    (Institute of Human Resource Advancement, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka)

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This study itself deals with the novel “Things fall apart†which is a creation by a well-known Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe to see the portraying of the relationship between cultural devastation and the hero’s destruction. The entire novel portrays Igbo society with specificity and sympathy and it examines the effects of European colonialism from an African perspective. The objective of this study is to identify the way that the author has made the link between the major themes and the characters of the text. There it has worked on to see the relationship between the hero’s fall and the cultural fall in the text. Further this study reveals a link which creates a sound bond about the social set up a particular set of people while donating hiding value of a cultural reveal.

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  • Sandamali K. P. S, 2020. "Portraying the Relationship between Cultural Fall and the Hero’s fall in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 4(12), pages 27-30, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:4:y:2020:i:12:p:27-30
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