The Picture Of Dorian Gray By Chinua Achebe - 1006 Words

Jack Mouchawar September 18, 2014 F Block Mr. Clark Sacrifice Leads to Death Final Draft In The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wide and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the characters: Okonkwo, Obierika, Dorian, and Sibyl Vane make sacrifices in two different ways: internally and externally. Consequently, all the emotions of the characters in the novel that led up to the sacrifice were anger, insanity, depression, and loyalty, which all result in death. Okonkwo and Obierika’s sacrifices are worth it because the emotions that they have when making the sacrifice show that they are fighting for their inalienable rights. Dorian Gray and Sibyl Vane’s sacrifices are not worth it because the emotions that they show is cowardly and weak. In Things Fall Apart, the characters make many courageous sacrifices for their family and tribe. An exemplification of a sacrifice is Obierika’s decision to go against the rules of his tribe, and remain loyal to Okonkwo. He updates Okonkwo on the good and bad things happening in Umuofia, â€Å"‘That is the money from your yams,’ he said. ‘ I sold the big ones as soon as you left’† (142). The quote shows Obierika’s loyalty to Okonkwo as he is opting to leave the village unnoticed to give Okonkwo food and money. The author, Chinua Achebe incorporates Obierika’s risk into the novel as acts of friendship and loyalty to his leader, even though Obierika should not converse with Okonkwo since Umuofia has an ignoble feeling about him now. Similarly, likeShow MoreRelatedIs Joseph Conrad a Racist and Does His Work Portray It? Essay3298 Words   |  14 Pages In his famous critical essay, â€Å"An Image of Africa† (1975), Chinua Achebe takes a strong stance against Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. He asserts that Conrad was a racist and his novella is a product of his racism. A following quote that is good to show Achebe opinion for Conrad is: The point of my observations should be quite clear by now, namely that Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the fact that whiteRead MoreAnalysis Of Chinua Achebe s An Image Of Africa 2459 Words   |  10 PagesNathaniel Oehl 4/4/2016 In Defense of Conrad: A Response to Achebe’s â€Å"An Image of Africa† In â€Å"An Image of Africa†, Chinua Achebe comes to the bold conclusion that Joseph Conrad â€Å"was a bloody racist† (788), with his discussion centering primarily on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as a racist text. Achebe’s reasoning for this branding rests on the claims that Conrad depicts Africa as â€Å"a place of negations at once remote and vaguely familiar in comparison with which Europe s own state of spiritual grace