Problem
What parallels are there between "The Second Coming" by Yeats, and the novel, Things Fall Apart by Achebe? How do Yeats and Achebe account for the decline of society or culture? Yeats pointed out that societies don't fall due solely to external pressures; some tensions and pressures must exist within the society first. What tensions existed within the Igbo society before the missionaries arrived? How do values within the culture clash with those of the newly arrived Europeans?