Abstract

This essay attempts to assess the highly prominent Nigerian novelist’s (Chinua Achebe’s) two very famous and rich novels, Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, as philosophy and literature of significant, perfect thought from the standpoint of Achebe’s thematic thrust relating to the subject of solitude/loneliness/isolation in both novels. The essay advances and underlines the argument that Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God are two modern (African) novels which are concerned with the focused on subject which results from man’s (typified in each text’s hero’s) alienation from himself, from his land and from his fellow men including posthumans. The essay’s conclusion is that in Achebe’s novels philosophy and literature offer contending means of gaining access to human nature.