"Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all." (Aristotle). Okonkwo is the ideal example of Aristotle’s quote in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Despite being the most powerful man in Umuofia, Okonkwo’s personal imperfections of fear, failure and uncontrollable anger do not allow him true eminence as a human being.
In this book Things Fall Apart, strength and pride are very important aspects of the main character, Okonkwo, however, these characteristics may sound like excellent traits to possess but because of the way he was raised, Okonkwo bared most of his feelings under an outward shell of violence, strength and pride. His traits can be shown by taking a gander at where
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Right off the bat, his consistent want to be as far off from his dad as possible, has made the dread of resembling him or contaminating his existence with apathy and untrustworthiness which gives him a chance to concentrate his opportunity on his clan mates and family. Also, Okonkwo has distinguished the way his dad raised him and he continually attempted to raise his family contrastingly yet once in a while gave fear a chance to take over him, and he begins to act savage. To add on, Okonkwo's choice to take in Ikemefuna and keep him in his family demonstrates how he is tolerant of others and will acknowledge another youngster, something his dad most likely would never have done. Okonkwo's dad unmistakably affected his life, and the choices Okonkwo makes demonstrate his disparities from his …show more content…
Right off the bat, when Okonkwo is informed that Ezinma is kicking the bucket, he winds up stressed and anxious of her diminishing and he starts to look for medications with a specific end goal to enable her to improve and challenges the divine beings by following Chielo to the give in of the prophet to make sure that his girl will be alright. Additionally around this time in the book, Okonkwo goes to Ekwefi and sits with her while Ezinma is taken into the give in of the prophet which demonstrates that he thinks about his better half's sentiments in spite of his general sharpness towards his spouses. In addition, Okonkwo's sentiments of pity and misery when Ikemefuna passes on demonstrates that he is fit for trouble and love of his youngsters, even ones who aren't specifically his. Okonkwo's masculine outside does not mirror his inside feelings and the inconveniences he has encountered in his life unquestionably affect