Things Fall Apart Essay

Things Fall Apart Things fall apart is written by Chinua Achebe. Okonkwo the main character did not want to be like his father Unoka lazy and cowardice. Unoka did not like to work but he had talent in music especially he could play flute very good and loved parties and leisure. Okonkwo was not born as a lord of his clan but he was born in a family that his father was careless and was debtor from other people up to his death. He achieved the reputation in his clan after the battle of wrestle. He built his home and got a good status among people. He was a good wrestler and a hardworking farmer and got rich through his crops and had three wives with many children. It took a long time that he reached his goal. In Things Fall Apart” novel things fall apart because of Okonkwo character and colonialism.

All the time Okonkwo had fear to become weak the traits that belong to his father and women. He had feared that his children would not become like him. Okonkwo did not show any emotion except emotion of anger. He was told not to join for killing of the boy but he joined and killed the boy because he wanted to be strong like a man. He was exiled for seven years

According to Stogdill theory (1948-1970) Okonkwo was a masculine. He was aggressive, directive and task oriented. He did not give any direction to the task when giving the tasks to his wives and children. He did not have a good behavior with his wives. He beat them even sometimes threatened them to kill with a gun. He hated femininity and women were weak and defenseless. The Women of their clan just take care of children and doing chores. He was extremely afraid of becoming like his father. He could develop his trait of fear instead of too much anxiety. The fear was not his weakness but it was an opportunity to develop it that unfortunately he did not develop it. It was the fear that even he chose suicide. He could not control his fear and anger that caused everything falls apart at the