scholarly article response

In his article titled ''Principle and Practice: The Logic of Cultural Violence in Achebe's Things Fall Apart.'', David Hoegberg considers principle and practice among the characters in the novel  and how this  eventually leads to alienation and violence. I agree with him on that notion  because before the missionaries invaded the Igbo clan, to which their disunity is attributed, the people of Umofia were alredy engaged in cutural violence caused by themselves and that contribiuted to their fall. Obviosly they were disjoint in their practices that involved things such as human sacrifices and wars.They were not dynamic in their cultural believes, the very basis for a successful cultural strenght.All the other forms of chaos they encountered wer not fully pleasing to everybody.Like David said, ''If the Igbo, as depicted in the novel, fail to make changes in other areas where there are contradictions between principle and practice, then, it cannot be because such change is impossible.'' However since they had been born to accept those forms of violence acted upon them such as okonkwo's murder of  Ikemefuna they cannot claim to be unaware or unconsious of the cultural ''violence withing their culture''  on a geneneral scale.Concievably therefore, they had a part to play in their own downfall due to the presense of ''cutural violence'' and lack of ''change.''


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