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4 pages in length. Perhaps these particular peoples were not ready to be free of what were deemed as religious constraints to which they so readily adhered. Perhaps the European's believed that it was not necessary for the village of Umuofia to secure its heritage by way of political, governmental and familial implications. The fact is this: What existed before the uninvited European visitors planted their foreign feet upon Umuofia's ground was never the same once colonization occurred. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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it means to be a heroic human being. These representations illustrate how and why the village of Umuofia experienced the ravages of identity when the Europeans colonized, as well
as how Okonkwo remained a hero to his people. In Achebes account, Okonkwo fights heroically to defend an integral component of his heritage
and religion being appropriated by the Europeans. One can reasonably assert there exists a sequence of social change that clearly describes the impact of the intrusive abrogation European culture
had upon the indigenous culture of Umuofia. Having viewed Umuofias culture as tending to be relatively stationary as well as harboring unstable equilibrium, one can explain the validity of
such a statement by describing various postcolonial events of social heroism that occur in the novel effectively justifying its truth. "From a very early age, Okonkwo is obsessed with
championing his masculinity" (Osei-Nyame PG). Initially, Okonkwos tragedy represents one of the most essential of all scynchronistic events that speak directly to this assertion, in that he finds himself
trapped within the discomfort of transition as it relates to the tribal life he has always known and that of the invading white mans. He is unable to adjust
to this changing social, political and legal climate, effectively rendering him weak to the oppression of control and obsessed with the "fear of failure and of weakness" (Achebe PG).
For nearly as long as man has existed, cultural intolerance has been driving a wedge between the Caucasian race and all other ethnicities.
Somewhere back in the beginning of civilization and continuing throughout the European colonization, an unwritten law came into effect that proclaimed the white race as one that was better than
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