The missionaries come telling the people of the Lower niger that “they worshiped false gods” as they tried to convert people to Catholicism (Achebe 145). The people of Umuofia struggle with the fact that their faith has failed them when it comes to handling the missionaries. Umuofia’s faith is becoming absent and near the end of Okonkwo’s life the village was “turning and turning into the widening gyre” of doubt, of not knowing what is real and what is false (Yeats). Umuofia is a village of people who share the same culture and beliefs. Mr. Brown started a school to convert the youth to his faith and once “more people started to learn in his school” this new ideology split the village in two camps: conventional belief and western practices. (Achebe 181). As the village suffered an ideological split “ things [fell] apart; the centre [could not] hold/ mere anarchy [was] loosed” (Yeats). “The second Coming” conveys chaos and after the missionaries arrive, chaos is brought to Umuofia and things fall
The missionaries come telling the people of the Lower niger that “they worshiped false gods” as they tried to convert people to Catholicism (Achebe 145). The people of Umuofia struggle with the fact that their faith has failed them when it comes to handling the missionaries. Umuofia’s faith is becoming absent and near the end of Okonkwo’s life the village was “turning and turning into the widening gyre” of doubt, of not knowing what is real and what is false (Yeats). Umuofia is a village of people who share the same culture and beliefs. Mr. Brown started a school to convert the youth to his faith and once “more people started to learn in his school” this new ideology split the village in two camps: conventional belief and western practices. (Achebe 181). As the village suffered an ideological split “ things [fell] apart; the centre [could not] hold/ mere anarchy [was] loosed” (Yeats). “The second Coming” conveys chaos and after the missionaries arrive, chaos is brought to Umuofia and things fall