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Essay / The Heart of Darkness by Chinua Achebe - 1056
“People create stories, create people; or rather stories create people create stories,” a quote from Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian novelist, poet and critic best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958). He described how imposed Western values led to the social disorientation of traditional African society. Achebe means that stories inspire eternal change. With his novel, he hopes that his readers will achieve this eternal change. Recognize the truths of society and ignore false accusations from outside forces. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart questions and challenges previous literary discussions of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and other colonial texts by constituting a new perspective on African history and beliefs through the use of argumentative strategies, narrative and linguistic. Although Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" "If the morality of European imperialism in Africa is contested, racism is still emphasized by Europeans at this time. An example is the relationship between his African cousins- American and the biblical symbols of evil night Throughout Heart of Darkness, sin is represented by the images of darkness and Christianity and enlightenment is represented by light in the novel. is dominated by all the elements of the Earth. Africa is a place of deep darkness, empty of history and civilization, and perhaps the African people are the human form of untamed perdition. Africa is “so desperate and so dark, so impenetrable to human thought, so merciless to human weakness” (HoD 130) “It is a place of dusty negroes” (HoD 83), severely dressed and with fierce nostrils. . bloodshot eyes and sharp teeth” (HoD 111). Conrad's diction is harsh middle of paper ......e Africans with a lot of truth. Despite the lack of technology, Africans are a fairly advanced society. Achebe described them perfectly and did not undermine their culture like the Europeans did. Chinua Achebe helped create a new perspective and story of Nigerian and African history using his works, with Things Fall Apart being the most influential piece. he was able to challenge previous texts that falsely described African culture. The goal of the colonials and Europeans was to disrupt the African way of life. Africans were essentially like white people, the only difference was the color of their skin. White people could not accept the fact that they were different, which is why the vandalism of African culture occurred. Achebe used his work of art, which is his novel, to accurately and positively depict the innocent African people..