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Patrick Brantlingerer Things Fall Apart

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In Patrick Brantlinger chapter “ Victorians and Africans” he explains how Africans are weak, pinitable, with inferior morals who need to be guided or shown the light, But in “Things Fall Apart” a novel by Chinua Achebe he shatters that image by explaining how Africa is full of enriched culture and life. Throughout “Things Fall Apart” Achebe shows how Africa may not be as advanced as the colonists or as educated, but Africans would eventually become as advanced in the future as well. This contradicts the “Dark Continent” because it stated that “Africa would be without hope of rising itself unless there was contact with superior races by commerce.”

Throughout “Victorians and Africans” the word savages is mentioned repeatedly and Brantlinger stated that “When we come to consider the case …show more content…

Each of them had entirely different beliefs such as the villagers who thought of human sacrifice as the way to honor the gods and the colonists didn't do human sacrifices instead they went to church every sunday to honor their god. Throughout “Things Fall Apart” Chinua Achebe gives a perspective on how Africa is rich in culture and life, but “Victorians and Africans; The genealogy of the myth of the dark continent” Patrick Brantlinger explains how the myth of the dark continent was spread through

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