Element of Violence in ‘Things Fall Apart’

Abstract

Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe a novel that constitute an atmosphere when the colonizer was going to colonize the society that relates to this novel. The novelist depicts Igbo community as the center of the novel, with all its rituals, customs, and traditions and with its culture. The title of the novel suggests the shifting things by depicting village Umuofia as it was beginning of the novel. The title has taken from W.B. Yeats’ poem ‘The Second Coming’ that suggests the apocalypse is the end of civilization in our world. The protagonist of the novel wants to hold the things that are existed but at present these things are going to change. In this change colonialism play an important role. This clash of natives and The White abrupt in violence.