Religion, social identity, national identity, and cultural identity are explored in the document. It discusses how religion affects identity in Things Fall Apart and the role of social identity in the Igbo community. National identity is discussed in the context of how colonialism constructed Nigerian identity. Cultural identity is disturbed in the novel as the British destruction of Igbo culture and religion leads to the downfall of traditional Igbo society. The document examines these various identities through quotes and themes from Things Fall Apart.
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5. How does religion affect identity ?
Male and Female Crime.
Destroy Okonkwo’s belonging aimed to achieve god’s will.
Religion V/S individual will.
“Is it justice to exile man out of his land because committed a crime
accidentally ?” - Obierika
Earth goddess - Responsible for protecting the crop and conducting
their behaviors.
“She was the ultimate judge of morality and conduct. And what was
more, she in close communion with the departed fathers of the clan
whose bodies had been committed to earth.”(Achebe:32)
The extent to which an individual has a relationship with a particular institutionalized doctrine about
ultimate reality
6. What is the role of Social Identity ?
The dominance of the male - Igbo patriarchal
community.
“Coercive Physical Power” - Uses to punish
Woman.
Social supremacy - Authority, Male Dominance
and Reputation.
Regardless concept - Of A Nneka - translation -
“Mother is supreme” means The most
important factor with regard to the woman in
traditional society is her role as mother.
7.
8. “… a collective or group identity based on language,
ethnicity, culture, religion, geography, spirituality or
politics….”
Essential subjectivity of Nigerian national identity
constructed by colonial Eurocentrism
..
Why we need national identity ?
White
Supremacy
Inferior
Nigerian
Okonkwo
Colonial
Expansion
Okonkwo’s
Suicide
9. Igbo
Religion
White
Religion
How Cultural identity disturbed in the novel ?
African identity - Igbo tribe - imposed by the British
imperialism.
Woman - Domestically oriented job and position to man.
British destroyed- Edu government system - which igbo
follows.
“The schools that the British built in Umuofia taught the
native people to read and write in the White man’s
culture” (Achebe 181).
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10. Novel represents tragedy of Igbo culture
falls apart under dominating white wave.
Reveals the reality behind European
expansion with the moral of local story.
Igbo clan are not uncivilized, but only fail to
protect their identities.
Religious differences effects the relation
between the characters of the novel.
Conclusion
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