Examples Of Imperialism In Things Fall Apart

Imperialism is “the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation.” (Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary, 1999) Anti-imperialism is the counteract of imperialism. Achebe’s novel, “Things Fall Apart is an example of anti-imperialism because he writes about how the village of Umofia was forced to change and conform. He shows us the resist to European imperialism through the emotions and thought of Okonkwo, the leader of the Umuofia village. Okonkwo fought until the end to resist the change. Unfortunately, it had cost him his life. When someone or something has been accustomed to a certain way and a factor comes in and changes that, there can either be acceptance or rebellion. The village of Umuofia had they own beliefs and leadership. Something they lived by their whole lives. When the Europeans came, everything had changed. They came in with force. They wiped out an entire village basically they were showing the people who was in charge and who had the upper hand. I was confused, just as the main character Okonkwo was, as to why some of the people accepted the change even though it meant dropping everything they lived by and conform to something new. That’s like trying to make someone over the age of ninety change the way they’ve been living their whole lives. If was as
He was truly a tragic hero. He had an untimely death that could’ve been avoided. It pained me to read that his own people didn’t stand up and defend him when he wanted to take a stand and as the result to that, he killed himself. Killing oneself was deemed as dishonorable. His death can be viewed as an act of cowardliness and shameful, just like his father. It was the easy way out. I can see that his death symbolizes the death of their culture. Even though it cost him his life, he was determined to the very end to not be handed over to the