Things Fall Apart

Achebe's interview

the interview shortly after the publication of things fall apart, Achebe stated that his goal for writing the novel was to help his society regain belief in itself and put away the complex of demigration and self abasement .Please explain how he did or did not meet his goal.

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Towards the end of the novel, we witness the events by which Igbo society begins to fall apart. Religion is threatened, Umuofia loses its self-determination, and the very centers of tribal life are threatened. These events are all the more painful for the reader because so much time has been spent in sympathetic description of Igbo life; the reader realizes that he has been learning about a way of life that no longer exists.

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