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Prepared By: Gohil Namrata R.
Paper no.:14/ The African Literature
Enrolment No.: G13101010
Year: 2014-2015
Roll No.: 18
M.A./Part:2
Sem.:4
Submitted To: S.B. Gardi,
Department of English,
M.K. Bhavnagar University,
Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India).
 Things Fall Apart published
in 1958, just before Nigerian
independence, the novel
recounts the life of the village
hero Okonkwo and describes
the arrival of white missionaries
in Nigeria and its impact on
traditional Igbo Society during
the late 1800s.
 Kanthapura, the first major
Indian novel in English was
written in the colonial India in
1930. It deals with the civil
Disobedience Movement of
the 1930s. This Novel Deals of
colonial India is post-colonial in
spirit for various reasons. To
deify Gandhi is a art of the
process of decolonizing the
Indian mind
Sociological
Comparison
British
Colonialism
Culture
Role of
Protagonist
Kanthapura regarded as colonial novel of 1938.
 It Decolonize the mind of the people of
Kanthapura.
The simple happening including the fight against
the British colonialism at the Skeffington Coffee
Estate, give us a clear picture of decolonization
process.
The Role of Gandhism.
Things Fall Apart is set during a period of
British colonial rule of Nigeria in the late 1800s.
Nigeria became a British
colony in 1886.
Christian missionaries
arrived in Nigeria in the
mid-1800s, and by the
end of the century had
begun a strong
conversion campaign.
They wanted the African
people to embrace
Christianity.
 Role Of Achakka
 He represent
Gandhiji’s
Philosophy.
 Positivity
 Role of Okonkwo
 Okonkwo believes
that strength and
toughness are
more important
than compassion
and gentleness.
Email Id: gohilnamrata1992@gmail.com

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Comparative Analysis of 'Things Fall Apart' and 'Kanthapura' as Sociological Perspective

  • 1. Prepared By: Gohil Namrata R. Paper no.:14/ The African Literature Enrolment No.: G13101010 Year: 2014-2015 Roll No.: 18 M.A./Part:2 Sem.:4 Submitted To: S.B. Gardi, Department of English, M.K. Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India).
  • 2.
  • 3.  Things Fall Apart published in 1958, just before Nigerian independence, the novel recounts the life of the village hero Okonkwo and describes the arrival of white missionaries in Nigeria and its impact on traditional Igbo Society during the late 1800s.
  • 4.  Kanthapura, the first major Indian novel in English was written in the colonial India in 1930. It deals with the civil Disobedience Movement of the 1930s. This Novel Deals of colonial India is post-colonial in spirit for various reasons. To deify Gandhi is a art of the process of decolonizing the Indian mind
  • 6. Kanthapura regarded as colonial novel of 1938.  It Decolonize the mind of the people of Kanthapura. The simple happening including the fight against the British colonialism at the Skeffington Coffee Estate, give us a clear picture of decolonization process. The Role of Gandhism.
  • 7. Things Fall Apart is set during a period of British colonial rule of Nigeria in the late 1800s. Nigeria became a British colony in 1886.
  • 8. Christian missionaries arrived in Nigeria in the mid-1800s, and by the end of the century had begun a strong conversion campaign. They wanted the African people to embrace Christianity.
  • 9.
  • 10.
  • 11.  Role Of Achakka  He represent Gandhiji’s Philosophy.  Positivity  Role of Okonkwo  Okonkwo believes that strength and toughness are more important than compassion and gentleness.