Macbeth and Things Fall Apart
The tragic heroes of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart create concepts of the way the different cultures perceive the idea of the tragic hero. The tragic hero in both cultures suffers the downfall of the story or play. Within the stories both heroes show different forms of a tragic flaw. The stories also show the difference in temperament for the cultures concerning how the men treated and reacted towards certain things. The differences in these two tragic hero’s shows the differences in the cultures in which they are written.
Throughout Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart the tragic hero Okonkwo displays great anger towards many people throughout his tribe. For example, during the week of
The tragic heroes of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart create concepts of the way the different cultures perceive the idea of the tragic hero. The tragic hero in both cultures suffers the downfall of the story or play. Within the stories both heroes show different forms of a tragic flaw. The stories also show the difference in temperament for the cultures concerning how the men treated and reacted towards certain things. The differences in these two tragic hero’s shows the differences in the cultures in which they are written.
Throughout Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart the tragic hero Okonkwo displays great anger towards many people throughout his tribe. For example, during the week of