Things Fall Apart: The Title and Themes

Author(s)	Kavithamani.V
Country	India
Abstract	A stanza of Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” forms the epigraph Achebe’s novel “Things Fall Apart”. Achebe lifts a phrase from the same piece to entitle his novel. In this work Yeats records the breakdown of the old order, the Christian civilization, and its displacement by anew order to be dominated by ‘a beast’. Likewise, Achebe mourns the falling apart of the Ibo society and the disappearance of its culture as a consequence of the advent of European colonialism. But, unlike Yeats, the African writer focuses more on the old order at the moment of its collapse.
Keywords	Civilization, culture, society, colonialism
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 4, July-August 2023
Published On	2023-08-03
Cite This	Things Fall Apart: The Title and Themes - Kavithamani.V - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 4, July-August 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.4980
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.4980
Short DOI	https://doi.org/

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