Play a Trick and Live:Chinua Achebe’s“Civil Peace”

摘要

This paper aims to study Chinua Achebe’s short story“Civil Peace”from a mythological point of view. As a trickster, the protagonist confronts the violence and chaos in the society after the civil war and manages to rebuild his life by playing tricks. Due to the absence of help from either the government or the community, Jonathan is forced to depend on himself to solve different problems and resolve the crisis that will probably lead to the loss of everything he owns. His success symbolizes a hope to the desperate society.