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Emotional Power played an impactful role in Things Fall Apart, as Okonkwo's issues with himself, first derived from his angst against becoming similar to his father. In the novel, it describes Okonkwo as not a cruel man but to consider that “his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and weakness” (Achebe 10). Since childhood, humiliation plagued him, therefore, he channeled his resentment towards succeeding. Particularly, the man to the far left of my graphic illustration…

Fear As a Theme Fear is a popular theme that is used in all forms of literature. In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart he uses fear as a recurring theme. This theme appears throughout the book in several different situations and for several different reasons, which demonstrates that fear has more than one form and more than one cause. Fear is a very important aspect of Things Fall Apart and of life. Two instances in which Chinua Achebe develops fear as a theme are when he establishes…

In his insightful critique, “The Plight of a Hero in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart,” Patrick Nnoromele reevaluates the demise of protagonist Okonkwo, widely perceived as a repercussion of his tragic flaw: the abiding fear of resembling his effeminate and disreputable father. However, Nnoromele alternatively suggests that Okonkwo’s suicide was not the manifestation of weakness and defeat, but rather a gallant act according to the Igbo ideals. To justify this claim, the critic characterizes a hero in…

The novel, “Things Fall Apart”, by Chinua Achebe, tells the tragic yet heroic story of the demise of a legendary man called Okonkwo. Okonkwo, the son of Unoka, whose reputation of discontentment preceded him, also condemned his father, seeing him as weak and soft. Ashamed of his father’s inability to demonstrate, what he believed to be the strength, wealth and overall dignity of a man, Okonkwo was determined and therefore destined to live a life furthest from the complacent nature of his father…

“He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart” ( Achebe, pg 176 ). From the start of trade and technological inventions, cultures have collided and clash with one another. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, a warrior who is highly respected in his society, struggles to keep up with the constant changes in his tribe and instead of going along with it, he responds by resisting it. Not wanting to be anything like his father, Okonkwo grows…

In the novel Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo is a tragic hero. Okonkwo is the protagonist of Things fall apart and in the novel Okonkwo demonstrates hamartia, peripeteia, as well as anagnorisis. Okonkwo is a hardworking bellwether of the Igbo community of Umuofia. Okonkwo’s tragic imperfection is his trepidation of failure. His father was the derivative of this trepidation. Okonkwo's father was an indolent character who had accumulated so much debt he owed every single individual in the clan some…

Today I interviewed a man by the name of Johnny Christian. He just recently earned the title of Bryan County Sheriff so I knew he had to be full of good ideas. I started by asking him all the questions in the list in order and then a couple of my own. I learned that he has been friends with my dad since they were kids and also grew up in the same town I live in now. He went to the same high school as me and had no intentions of becoming a police officer as a college student. It surprised me when…

In the book, Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe thoroughly makes it clear important strength is in the Ibo Tribe. Throughout the story we learn how Okonkwo has persevered from his father's misfortune and poverty, to becoming one of the tribes greatest war heroes. The strength he showed when “Throwing the cat,” and bringing the heads of his enemies back, made him powerful in different aspects. One being having several wives, which in his tribe alone made him both powerful and successful. In the…

Two main characters share similar traits from respective pieces of literature, one is a quasi-ruler of an African hamlet and the other is a soldier fighting deadly robots. In Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, Ezeulu is the chief priest of multiple villages in Africa that is slowly being colonized by the British in the early Twentieth Century. Second Variety by Phillip K. Dick is a short science fiction story set in an apocalyptic future about a military officer named Major Joseph Hendricks, who…

“Maybe our mistakes are what makes our fate.” -Carrie Bradshaw. Throughout reading The Crucible, flaws within each character, and the actions they made based upon those inner flaws, eventually lead to their “downfall”. John Proctor was a highly respected man in the community of Salem, as well as by himself. John Proctor presented himself in the guise of a happy and put together man, hiding his imperfections and weaknesses from the rest of the community at all costs. By the end of the play, John…