Read the excerpt below and answer the question. and if the clan did not exact punishment for an offence on the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. as the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled the others. what does the phrase “if one finger brought oil it soiled the others” most likely mean in this excerpt from things fall apart?

The offence of  the offender will extend to all the other members of the clan.

“if one finger brought oil it soiled the others” means that just one oily finger will taint all the other fingers with oil; another way to look at it is that the dirt of  one finger will extend to the other fingers if you don't clean it first. In other words the phrase “if one finger brought oil it soiled the others” is a metaphorical way of saying that if left unpunished, the sin of one person extend to the whole community. We can confirm this by replacing finger with member of the clan and oil whit offence in the phrase: If one offender member of the clan brought offence (to the great goddess) it soiled the others (members of the clan).

english novelist and poet, the eldest of the three brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of english literature.

she enlisted in school at roe head in january 1831, aged 14 years. she left the year after to teach her sisters, emily and anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. in 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of currer, ellis and acton bell. her first novel the professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel jane eyre was published in 1847. the sisters admitted to their bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in london literary circles.

brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. she became pregnant shortly after her marriage in june 1854 but died on 31 march 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

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