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A 6 page analysis of Achebe's Things Fall Apart as understood through a perspective aided by Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. The writer argues that although these two works deal with totally different cultures in totally different time frames, the commonality of human experience gives them quite a few points of similarity. Specifically, they both address the ramifications of rapidly cultural change and how it can be affected by conservative elements within that culture. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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his reactions to the dissolution and reconstruction of French society that occurred with the French Revolution. Although these two works deal with totally different cultures in totally different time frames,
the commonality of human experience gives them quite a few points of similarity. Specifically, they both address the ramifications of rapidly cultural change and how it can be affected by
conservative elements within that culture. Achebe provides a different perspective on African history during the period of European colonialism, and how this effectively dissolved the indigenous African cultures when
the two came into contact. Without their traditions, the African cultures were doomed and their traditions were effectively outlawed by Christianity and the Europeans. In this classic, Reflections on
the Revolution in France, Burke argued on the stabilizing influence of societal institutions. He felt that the disruption of these institutions would spell chaos for France, and he was proven
correct in the decades that followed the Revolution. Both works point toward the value of tradition in the continuation of cultural mores and norms. In Things Fall
Apart, Achebe relates the demise of Igbo culture, but in so doing, he not only involves himself with the reconstruction of an authentic African perspective in presenting a traditional African
culture, but he also addresses deconstructing the counterfeit past that was superimposed over Africa by Europeans. In other words, he writes against what might be called "colonialist" discourse, against the
attitudes and assumptions that were expressed by Europeans regarding the cultures that they encountered. Achebe demonstrates, particularly through the character of
the District Commissioner, how Europeans laid their own interpretation on African culture, and?in many cases?this interpretation even denied that African culture existed as such. Achebe, therefore, in Things Fall Apart,
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