Der Einfluss Von Religion Und Aberglaube In Den Charakteren Von Things Fall Apart Und Das Fräulein Von Scuderi: Eine Vergleichende Analyse

Abstract

Religion and superstition are aspects of the culture that are widely experience d in human life. Religion in particular is the belief in God and other gods, while superstition means the belief in facts that really may not have anything to do with the belief in God. Different authors have various written on human and social themes in different cultures and from different perspectives. Two such different authors from two very different cultures are Chinua Achebe in his work Thing Fall Apart and E.T.A. Hoffmann in his own work Das Fräulein von Scuderi. Both authors bring out each in his own cultural environment and era, the consequences of religion and superstition on the societies and the individuals respectively. While Chinua Achebe show-cases the African nature in relation to religion and superstition, E.T.A. Hoffmann expresses the consequences of superstition in his own European society. This work attempts a comparative analysis of these two works from the two authors, to bring out the similarities and differences in human nature, even in different cultures and shows the consequences of religious and superstitious inclinations on the individual and the society.