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Introduction: Literature and Character |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / LITERATURE AND CHARACTER |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1998 |
| Size: 467 Words, 2,879 Characters |
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Okonkwo, the central character in Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart, is the subject of this month's second installment in our three-part series on tragic figures from literature.
Okonkwo becomes a tragic figure for several reasons. According to the study by Charles Larson presented here, the most important of t...
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... to Greek Orthodox Christianity in a.d. 988. Vladimir rejected Judaism, Islam, and Roman Catholicism, but his envoys and he were dazzled by the grandeur and sensual appeal of the architecture, vestments, and rites of this faith. Vladimir's decision would affect all the subsequent history of the Slavic peoples, and Solzhenitsyn would go so far as to say that "we all sprang from precious Kiev."
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