Things Fall Apart

I am going to use the postcolonialism theory for my essay Things Fall Apart. I feel that I want to write how the people who colonized in Africa, how they took control over the natives. I want to be able to write how the colonial people failed to see the natives in their perspective, and how they were trying to force them to do it their ways. How they were trying to force them to believe in their faith. I want to write about the natives struggles of conforming into a different culture and traditions. The struggle of being forced to think differently, to be forced to think like the colonial people.

The colonist ideology was "that all races other than white were inferior or subhuman"(236). This show how ignorant and prideful the colonists were. They believed they could just come into the natives land and bend the natives will to think and act like them. To change their culture and custom that they lived all their lives. In Things Fall Apart, they natives were stubborn and did not want to let go of their culture, they did not want to conform. Okonkwo is a great example of his stubbornness of not wanting to conform. Because of their stubbornness, the colonists have a tough time conforming the natives.