Conflict and its Manifestations in Achebe’s “Arrow of God”

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" Conflict and its Manifestations in Achebe’s “Arrow of God” "
Owen G. Mordaunt

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1064279
Doc. No	:	LA107908
Call No	:	‭10.1163/2031356X-0050304004‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Owen G. Mordaunt
Title & Author	:	Conflict and its Manifestations in Achebe’s “Arrow of God” [Article]\ Owen G. Mordaunt
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Afrika Focus
Date	:	1989
Volume/ Issue Number	:	5/3-4
Page No	:	153–165
Abstract	:	Mordaunt describes how the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe deals with the problem of personal conflict in his novel “Arrow of God”. The main character in this novel is Ezeulu, who is chief priest of the god Ulu, of the village of Umuaro. Ezeulu comes into conflict with himself in a quest to hold on to power despite his high age and the break-through of the British colonial administrators. Ezeulu wants to control both his people and the British administrators. Ezeulu believes the clan will silently follow him and the British will respect him. Hereto he sends his son to the white man’s missionary school where the boy adopts the new religion and sacrileges his own. Ezeulu will not punish him despite the wishes of the clan. Achebe’s novel shows that men cannot fight societies’ will and that the latter can bring a man to insanity.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	English literature
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Literature
Descriptor	:	Nigeria
Descriptor	:	Psychology
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/2031356X-0050304004‬