Effects Of Colonization Of Conrad s, Achebe s And Orwell...

The Effects of Colonization in Conrad’s, Achebe’s and Orwell’s Post-Colonial Works In the late 1800s, third world countries, primarily Africa, were infiltrated by European colonizers. In Things Fall Apart, Heart of Darkness, and â€Å"Shooting an Elephant†, we see the direct impact of the colonizers on the beliefs of the natives. Post-colonial literature centres mainly around how beliefs are questioned and eventually altered; a transformation that can manifest in numerous ways as it is not fixed. In each of the stories, a different form of colonization is elucidated. In Things Fall Apart, the curiosity of the natives with regards to the culture of the europeans leads to colonization. The oppression of the natives exerted by the europeans in Heart of Darkness leads to colonization as well. Finally, in â€Å"Shooting an Elephant†, the roles of the colonizers and the colonized are reversed as it is the natives who take on the position of the oppressors . The naà ¯ve villagers of Umuofia in Things Fall Apart discover their resilience when the white men infiltrate their territory like â€Å"locusts†, subtly presenting their culture to the Ibo people who eventually adopt it as their own. This causes religious conflicts and the natives begin questioning their own beliefs. â€Å"And at last the locusts did descend. They settled on every tree and on every blade of grass (†¦) and covered the bare ground. Mighty tree branches broke away under [the] (†¦) vast, hungry swarm.† (Achebe 56) The descension of the