NATURE AND SOCIETY AS REFLECTED IN ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to attempt a reading of Things Fall Apart from an eco-critical perspective to show that Achebe was writing the novel in part to make his African readers aware of the extent of the embeddedness of their forefathers in the environment. To illustrate the ways through which he delineates the manifold connections between the African and the land. Achebe intends to focus on his depiction of the damage caused in the relationship between Africans and their natural world by the advent of colonization. Finally, through this paper hope to emphasize Achebe’s profound belief in the importance of the connections Africans must reactivate with nature to make themselves whole again.