Volume III Issue I January-March 2023

Name of Author : Dr. S. Sivashanthi

Title of the paper : Contention of Culture –Vulture and Corruption in Achebe’s No Longer at Ease

Abstract: No Longer at Ease the supposed sequel to Things Fall Apart published in the year 1960, which is two years after the publication of the first novel of Achebe. The novel sounds more of a post script where the initial pages of the work take the readers to a trial which would ultimately end the career of Obi, the son of Nwoye alias Isaac and the grandson of Okonkwo. The author had set the earlier novel in the past and made it a tragedy while the next novel, No Longer at Ease reads more akin to a tragic comedy. The paper attempts to uncover the various social as well as political reasons which made Obi become the frustrated and corrupt modern man who thinks too little of the society and too much of himself.

Keywords : Igbo, Western Education, Corruption, Guilt

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Page No. : 124-126