Thesis:
Chinua Achebe's Nigerian cultural upbringing significantly influences the characterisation of certain characters in his literature through religious, cultural and social beliefs, in an attempt to rationalise the impact of the colonisers religion: Christianity.
TS1:
The extremist similarities in personality between Okonkwo and Mr. Smith allow for the reader to develop an establishment of the religious, cultural and social conflict both character represent.
TS2:
Achebe's uses Enoch to develop the conflict present through Things Fall Apart, as Enoch represents a first instance of a lack of coexistence between the Igbo people and the colonisers.
TS3:
Mr. Brown's character offers a compromise between the Igbo culture and its colonisers allowing the reader to develop an understanding of coexistence between both culture.
