Comparision Between Things Fall Apart and Kanthapura

Name : Solanki Pratiksha M.
Paper : 14. The African Literature Subject : Assignment
Title : Comparision between Things Fall Apart and Kanthapura Roll No. 21
Sem : 4
Submitted to : 

Smt. S.B.Gardi
Dept. of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

pratikshasolanki068@gmail.com     

Comparision Between Things Fall Apart and Kanthapura

Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe..

Things Fall Apart is a post-colonial novel written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in 1958. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and is widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world. The novel follows the life of Okonkwo, an Igbo leader and local wrestling champion in the fictional Nigerian village of Umuofia. Here we also see the Struggle and inferiority that black people faces..

Kanthapura by Raja Rao..

Raja Rao’s first novel Kanthapura (1938) is the story of a village in south India named Kanthapura. The novel is narrated in the form of a ‘sthalapurana’ by an old woman of the village, Achakka. Kanthapura is a traditional caste ridden Indian village which is away from all modern ways of living. Dominant castes like Brahmins are privileged to get the best region of the village whereas Sudras, Pariahs are marginalized.

Representation of African Culture in Things Fall Apart:

In Things Fall Apart, African Culture portrays in a structured and civilized society and they feels marginalized and always struggle to become an independent. In Thing Fall Apart, there is Igbo culture where they have their own individual rules, regulations and their living style totally different from others. We can say that here  theme of the clash of cultures and also Igbo Society Complexity. 

Representation of Culture in Kanthapura:

Here Village stands as a unity and sometimes used as a symbolic way. Villagers have also different tradition in their village like
Hari-Kathas, a traditional form of storytelling, was practiced in the village. While this reading nationalism in conflict with brahminism, something more interesting is available if we push our reading a little further. So here also we can see the inferiority and superiority with the help of cast system and theme of nationalisticinvolve here in the novel Kanthapura.

Similarities in The Things Fall Apart and Kanthapura:

O kenchamma !protect us always like this through famine and disease, death and despair, through the harvest night shall we dance before you, the fire in the middle and the hornes about us,we shall sing and sing and clap our sing

 - Kanthapura 

When a man says, yes his chi also says yes also 

– Things fall Apart 

Things Fall Apart Ezeulu row of God rely on traditional wisdom in their assertion of their personal point of view which impart to them a representative quality. The voice of Achakka in Kanthapura is the voice of mythic India elevating. the narration to the vast mythic parlorama in the Indian villages. Achebe who employs lgbo proverbs in Things Fall Apart and
Arrow Rao uses the Kannada idioms and expressions. Expressions like

"1 have seen your elders. "You cannot be a traitor to your salt givers" 

and the respectful addresses in the names like Bhattare, Ramannore, Moorthappa are used to denote praise flattery or decomn. The Kannada speech is an addopted way. and same The novel Kanthapura makes use of the native Kanrlada ingredients in the language. In the language of both Kao and Achebe, one could trace the confident mythic age springing from the cultural ethos of the two nations, placing the works in a domain of creative freedom which is shared by many other Third World writers.

Comparision Between two characters: Okonkwo and Moorthy

Language of Moorthy and Language of Okonkwo both has different. Okonkwo's language, suffused with proverbs and stories like Moorthy's speech resonatig the legendary lore of Kantliapura fits the purpose of placing individual thoughts in the larger mythopoeic domain of the respective cultural contexts.

End Of Novel:

Kanthapura : ends with " Pralaya "

Things Fall Apart: ends with surrender to colonizers

Thank you..