Short essays on Things Fall Apart on different subjects: Folktales/proverbs, a "pure" african culture, the impossiblity of the Ibo culture surviving, and Aristotelian model of a tragic hero

Achebe uses many of the folktales and proverbs that are common to the Ibo people along with some common mythology that exists in all cultures (such as the proverbs about the silence of night). The mythology/proverbs/folktales in which Achebe chooses to incorporate to the story is provided for the specific purpose of adding depth and reasoning to the decisions of all the characters that are part of the Ibo culture. Without having those insights into the Ibo people, all of their decisions and actions would be seen as a "barbaric" function of the culture, a view that follows what some western…