Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart Essay

In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the Ibo people from Umuofia based their lives on their beliefs and culture. The Ibo culture mainly evolved around the men, making them superior to the women in every possible aspect. Women are made to seem unimportant in the Ibo culture. The Ibo culture associates women to weakness, handled as objects, and given no power. Throughout, the book Chinua wrote, he set many examples in which women were treated as inferior to men. The main character of…

epidemics to spread around the globe. In the novel Things Fall Apart, author Chinua Achebe craftily writes the tribe of Umuofia and it’s neighboring territories, during Colonial-Period Nigeria, as one of the many casualties that history oftentimes tries to gloss over. The arrival of white man and their new religion did not just bring sadness, though, and in some aspects helped the territories grow into the country seen today. In Things Fall Apart, Christianity guided the Igbo people by…

In the novel, Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, the protagonist, is a man everyone wants to be. He is the greatest wrestler in all nine villages, proficient yam farmer, and proudly married three wives. Everything was working out for him since his goal was just not to become a man similar to his father, a person who was weak, lazy, and poor. At the end, he could not handle all the power he had and exploded. Okonkwo’s ego and self-importance overpowers his nobility to the…

in this world. Some people will eventually succumb to these thoughts, but others will use this as motivation. In the novel, “Things Fall Apart” written by Chinua Achebe, the main character decides to use his father’s failure as a method to triumph over adversity. It takes the judgement of others and one bad example to drive someone to become successful. For Instance, Okonkwo -the protagonist- was raised in the tribe of Umuofia where respect and leadership was highly important as well as required…

New things that come into people's lives that they are not familiar with will make them uncomfortable. In Things Fall Apart, When the christians came into the ibo culture, it caused the ibo tribe to be on edge and a few missionaries were killed. This was the start of the problems as they retaliate towards the ibo tribe and killed many of them in a gathering. Nwoye, the son of Okonkwo, is pulled into the christianity ways when he hears a poem that reminds him of his friend Ikemefuna and it…

After his exile, Okonkwo came back to Umuofia and saw how much his clan had changed. Together with some of his friends, which were important members of the clan as well, they started to revolt. First they were imprisoned, and when they were set free they wanted to take action again. The whole clan was thinking if they should join the revolt, but only a few really were confident to do this. Okonkwo asked himself “Why have they lost the power to fight”. Later, in an angry mood, Okonkwo killed one…

Africans have been portrayed and depicted as savage animals by many people throughout history. Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Chinua Achebe about the Igbo tribe in Africa and their true way of life. Chinua Achebe is a black man originally from an Igbo tribe, and he believes that the portrayal of Africans as savage animals is false. Because of this, he writes Things Fall Apart. In an interview with Achebe he states, “There is that great proverb—that until the lions have their own…

from? Is it prejudice or is it unbiased? Does your perspective follow any stereotypes made about Africans? Everyone can interpret Africa and Africans in completely different perspectives. In the novels, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, present Africa and its natives in two different ways. They illustrate Africa from different perspectives. Conrad’s novel presents African from the view of the colonizing Europeans. These Europeans depict the natives as…

In the novel “Things Fall Apart” the Igbo traditions are highly questionable as they prioritizes specific things and makes certain groups, especially those of a different gender, seem less powerful. One positive role the Igbo traditions enforces is of rewarding the hard and dedicated workers a higher and respected title. I think that one way the villagers were influenced by this tradition was that it focuses on one's achievements rather than family background. “Age was respected amongst the…

by the women who inhabit their villages. Throughout Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the role of women is met with some ambiguity due to a facade of blatant oppression and abuse. Though women in the Ibo culture are proven to be some of the most…