The culture of violence in Chimamanda N. Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck

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The objectives to deal with this study is first of all to enable the audience to perceive the different kinds of violence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck, and call on one’s consciousness on a kind of the world needed for living life in a peaceful manner, in order to live life peacefully on the earth. The paper aims at enabling prospective readers to really understand the way husbands carryout their responsibilities in households on one hand, the rationality of men as opposed to their wives in the process of breeding children in the house hold on the other hand. Not only this, but also the drawback of wars in time of war of course, violence related to the misunderstanding of religious doctrines etc. Literature remains the expression of human experience. It does instruct and teach a lesson of life. It is indeed a mirror that helps us to perceive things at different levels and leave the choice to decide.

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La présente étude est menée sur la culture de violence perçue dans le roman The Thing Around Your Neck de l’auteur Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. L’oeuvre romanesque englobe différentes sortes de violence telles que la violence conjugale, la violence basée sur les incompréhensions doctrinales religieuses, la violence basée sur le genre etc. La littérature demeure une science au service de la société. Elle se veut un miroir à travers lequel nous nous percevons, percevons les autres ou toute une société, et par la suite, décider comment conduire ou orienter notre vie selon les perceptions reflétées dans l’oeuvre.