CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART LQ: Can I analyse how Achebe presents the Religious struggle through his language choice, structure and form? TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy
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CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APARTLQ: Can I analyse how Achebe presents the Religious struggle
“The main purpose of colonial school system was to train Africans to participate in the domination and exploitation of the continent as a whole . . . Colonial education was education for subordination, exploitation, the creation of mental confusion and the development of underdevelopment.” [263] - Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
WATCH THIS CLIP AND CONSIDER HOW CONOLIAL INFLUENCES MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO CURRENT UNREST IN NIGERIA
Use the 8 extracts from Religious extracts to analyse the struggle for identity caused by the religious upheaval triggered by missionary conversionsConsider:• How are the two religions
presented through language?• How does the structure of the
novel or each chapter add to the presentation of the religions?
• How is the form relevant to the impact of how the religious struggle is presented?
EXT: How does this religious struggle fit with our wider reading?
THE SECOND COMINGTurning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;A shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all about itWind shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Drawing it together Decide 5 most useful quotations to use in wider reading section of the exam. These should be added to a quotation bank set up by your teacher on the blog EXT: can any of the quotations be used for other struggles as well?