Recommended: Analyse the character of okonkwo
The decisions that he made with sabotaging his son and telling his wife that he was having an affair and a baby by another woman, ultimately resulted into him suffering for the mistakes he has
This man is a menace to his own family he is cruel and unfair to his son and daughters and actions like this make me want to believe that this man is a unsympathetic character in this story. Okonkwo went as far as to try and shoot one of his wives in the back, and he beats her for leaving his daughter with his other wife. Okonkwo believes that if you make the tiniest mistake that you should be beaten. As far as with his son the one he calls lazy and incompetent he would starve him for 3 weeks straight. For example “Okonkwo stood over him while he swallowed his yams trembling a few moments he went behind the hut and began to vomit painfully”.
This decision caused him to lose his home, his wife, and almost his life. Even after everything he continued to often rethink his decisions but continued to pursue his new way of life. He decided to flee and try to find somewhere he could reprint and spread the literature. This required a ton of rethinking his way of
Political activism is something that has been around for centuries. Ways of being and activist can include writing letters to politicians, boycotting businesses, and protesting on streets for a cause. Perhaps one of the most well-known example of activism is the civil rights movement, specifically African American people fighting for their rights as citizens of the United States. Few names are linked to activism as much as Martin Luther King Jr. and Paul Robeson. Both of these men-though they lived in different times-fought for their people relentlessly and with pride.
Prompt 2 Okonkwo is driven by his hatred of his father and the fear he will become like him. Okonkwo saw his father, Unoka, as a coward and is ashamed to be his son. Everything that Okonkwo does is meant to set him apart from the legacy of his father. First, this is evident in his beating of his wives and even his aggression with his children. He is trying to show his strength and ensure he is not portrayed to be like his father: powerless and incapable.
When Okonkwo first returns back from his exile and hears the news of the white man in Umuofia, his anger increases that no one is trying to fight them. Even after his friend Obierika tells him about how the village Abame was destroyed by similar white missionaries Okonkwo simply thinks “Abame people were weak and foolish. Why did they not fight back... We would be cowards to compare ourselves to the men of Abame” (175). Okonkwo 's aggression blinds him to the dangers of rebelling against the white man, that he is willing to risk the destruction of his whole village just to satisfy his ideology of respecting his religion.
At first, Okonkwo was very set in his ways, and determined to appear manly and powerful to his clansmen, and this came into play when the white people entered into Umuofia, as he tried to fight back. Finally, when he did not get the results he was hoping for, he resorted to killing himself, displaying that stubbornness towards colliding cultures leads to violence and destruction. Overall, when two cultures collide, they can either both accept each other, leading to peace and prosperity, or try to claim superiority over the other, which results, most commonly, in destruction. Unfortunately, Things fall apart ended in the latter, but the other is possible for those with an open mind and a flexible
Okonkwo's father was seen as a failure by the Ibo culture and by Okonkwo himself, this made him fear that he would
Okonkwo wanted his tribe to fight back the missionaries in order to protect their Igbo culture but his persistence only led to his downfall. This can be seen when Okonkwo makes a rash decision to kill a messenger thinking Umuofia would fight back but ended up not fighting, “The white man whose power you know too well has ordered this meeting to stop.” In a flash, Okonkwo drew his machete. The messenger crouched to avoid the blow. It was useless.
This springs a collision between Okonkwo and Nwoye. Nwoye wants to become Christian and Okonkwo does not approve of what the white men introduced to the Ibo culture. There were other people in the clan like Okonkwo that went against their faith and claimed that everything the Christians believe in was false. Nwoye knows his father has a bad temper and so when Okonkwo found out that he wanted to convert, Nwoye knew that it would cause conflict, and Okonkwo would want to kill him. " Answer me," roared Okonkwo, "before I kill you!"
He was too proud to let his tribe give up their warlike history. He was to proud and self-assured to accept his son's choices. Okonkwo is a sad character whose pride has constantly led him down the crooked path. Achebe shows that being proud isn't a constructive thing for the future. That development can only occur when pride is put aside, and people think logically instead of
Okonkwo was so afraid of becoming like his father, that he became afraid of the idea of change, and that fear is what allowed Nwoye to grow distant, and eventually leave his father for Christianity. After his son left, Okonkwo got even worse, and he killed another man. “In a flash Okonkwo drew his machete. The messenger crouched to avoid the blow. It was useless.
In the book “Things Fall Apart“ Okonkwo is a very strong man and from time to time he starts showing his true self. He has a lot of responsibilities and other things he has to do around the living environment and interact with lots of people. Okonkwo changes from being that strong man, to a man who feels like his tribe is not with him when he wants to go to war with the missionaries. For someone like Okonkwo a lot of people looks up to him and while in the tribe Okonkwo beats his wives and children. Not good behavior for someone who is supposedly looked at as strong.
Okonkwo’s values are restricted to physical strength, power, and prosperity, and when the Europeans suddenly arrive, the cultural convergence prompts Okonkwo to respond with even more violence. While the majority of his tribe, including his son Nwoye, is open to considering
Okonkwo’s relationship with his late father is the reason he is so violent and ambitious. He wants to be better than his father’s legacy of his reckless lifestyle, implausible behavior, which he views as weak and feminine. Okonkwo’s idea of being manly is different than the clan’s. Okonkwo thinks being manly is aggression and that anger is the only emotion he should display in the public. This is the reason why he commits domestic abuse on his wives, threatening to kill them from time to time, and we see him act rashly and impetuously.
