Things Fall Apart vs. Heart of Darkness Throughout time there have been many novels written by different authors containing similar characteristics. Oftentimes, these novels even share a common theme. Among these novels, there are none more exemplary than Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Not only were these novels written by two separate individuals, but they are also similar in terms of sharing one common theme of racism. This theme is one of the many that these novels share, but it is the unarguably the most prevalent one. Racism is one of the several characteristics that made these novels such importa