How Is Okonkwo's View Of Western Imperialization In Things Fall Apart

The novel Things Fall Apart exposes the corrupt view of Western imperialization in Africa. Things Fall Apart also contributes to the idea of The Second Coming, incorporating the importance of being connected and the result of being disconnected. Achebe, the author, creates this image using the Commissioner as a prop for Western ideas and Okonkwo, an Ibo man, as collateral damage.
The novel ends in the Commissioner’s point of view. Achebe, communicates a negative indictment of Western views by ending the novel with the title of the commissioner’s book “The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger” (209). Therefore, exposing his thoughts and views, which are to resemble those of Western culture. He explains that handling Okonkwo’s
This fear results in him pursuing unnecessary actions, which ends in his great fall. Which is ironic because Okonkwo thought becoming someone like his father would shame him. Yet, it was his determination to be unlike him that led to his suicide, hence his shame. Hating everything associated with his father, Okonkwo decides to sustain from anything affiliated with him, including feminine characteristics as well as “gentleness and idleness” (13). To prove he was not afraid nor feminine, Okonkwo killed a messenger. Killing him later resulted in Okonkwo taking his own life. He killed the messenger over the same petty reasons he killed his beloved son Ikemefuna, to not be like his father. The feminine role of nurturing a child explains his distant relationship with his children. His destructive temper, shooting a gun at his wife, physically and mentally abusing his wives, disowning his oldest son, and rebuking his children for enjoying woman stories, are all results of this idea to sustain and hate anything like his father. Okonkwo’s overbearing fear reveals why he acts the way he does. Many things in life are complex, and cannot be seen as black and white, good and bad, or even right and wrong. If Okonkwo had embraced this idea of balance, instead of bearing this fear of failure, laziness, a man of his father, he may have been able to rise above his past and continue his future.
As previously stated, a person’s past can mold you into who are, or who you will become. In Okonkwo’s life, his past determined his actions, which lead him to his end. Yet, for various others knowing their past is just as important as knowing the world that surrounds them. When the missionaries come they are threatening to change their ways of life, and traditions, that have been pasted down from generation to generation. When introducing Western culture the Missionaries are in turn eliminating the natives true culture, including where they come from, and who they are as a civilization. The Ibo people, as many other conquered or pacified indigenous people, feel they have lost touch with their Spiritus Mundi, and in result lost