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Essay / Growth and Fall in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
and reduce him to an almost non-human form so that power and control can be concentrated more effectively. This formula had long-term effects as well as short-term effects, but the long-term effect probably persists to this day, especially in America. Naipaul, VS coined the term “imitating men” in reference to the Orient. If others engaged in mimicry, was it primarily because of the flaws in their own culture that were the only reason they were not attracted to it? While their language was rich and their customs colorful, is the notion of growth and advancement as embodied in Achebe, Chinua, "Things Fall Apart", in which the Igbo people towards the end of the novel dissolved their Igbo culture and embraced Christianity with the development of schools in order to have a better future for themselves. This is where the author presents the division of self with self. The vast majority of Igbo brethren are full of fear and anxiety and place their hopes in development and progression and therefore accept change with a mixture of pessimism and optimism. However, they are realistic in their desire for goals and progression for their future generations. The idea of the rejection of an Igbo culture practiced for thousands of years is catastrophic for a character like Okonkwo, because he, being one of the oldest members of the tribe, considers it a simple betrayal while his compatriots strive to overcome a materialistic attitude with how the white man is presented in the short story. It is this evolution in societies like Igbo, where the self wishes to change the other, whereby the other is transformed into the self, which then has a multiplier effect that makes the black man as white as the white man and less.... ... middle of paper ...... desired output. An employee's productivity and efficiency would gradually decline, meaning only the employer and its customers would lose out. If we put this analogy in the context of the master-slave relationship, the master at the time did not provide enough or/and decent incentives to the other. If the self had included the employer's code of conduct and ethics in today's scenario, perhaps we could come to an exciting conclusion: in the end, it was he who was in a huge loss and not the other on this specific aspect. With pathetic working and living conditions for slaves on plantations, cotton and sugar fields, coupled with the fact that the whip was the only reward for the slave, it was not at all surprising that the " "savagery" of the slaves eventually came out when they became violent against the plantation owners!