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Essay Archive - Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" and Desai's "Clear Light of Day": Tension and Conflict Between Traditional and Modern Views
Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" and Desai's "Clear Light of Day": Tension and
Conflict Between Traditional and Modern Views
How does the tension between traditional and modern views of the
world play itself out in Achebe's and Desai's novels?
In both Achebe's and Desai's novels, tension and conflict between
the new and the old, traditional and modern are the strong undercurrents
that move the story and the reader into an unconscious emotional uneasiness.
In both novels, the backdrop and the story are engrossed in a struggle
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