Okonkwo Tragic Hero

According to aristotle's definition of a tragic hero, okonkwo is a tragic hero in Things Fall Apart. A man doesn't become a hero until he sees his own downfall. Okonkwo follows the intangibles of a tragic hero established by Aristotle. They include some kind of major flaw, a reversal of fortune because of the hero's error of judgement, and the characters fate being greater than deserved. Okonkwo had many so called flaws. The major one is okonkwo was very inflexible he always wanted to be better than everyone and especially his father. He did not want to be nothing like his father at all. Instead he was the opposite, he worked non stop so much he never really had time to enjoy life at all. Also he only saw his way and was very stubborn,strict
to himself. He worked really hard and all the time because so he wouldn't wind up like his father and wouldnt be compared to his father. He wanted to show what a great leader looks like and he would be. He was fearless,not afraid of anything. But being strong and all of this killed his son Ikemefuna but out of all of that he still worked very hard and his work ethic never changed he was still always the hardest worker. He worked very hard to become successful. A quote ‘ perhaps down in his heart okonkwo was not a cruel man, but his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and weakness’. His tragic flaws continue to run his life and alter his fate. The next characteristics of Aristotle's principal of a tragic hero is reversal fortune brought about because of a hero's judgement.
Okonkwo made an error by killing the clansman, and the white messanger.As a punishment for killing the tribesman he has to lreave his vlan and go join his mothers Mbanta. Okonkwo leaves his tribe from hierarchy to removed from the tribe. Also, he did kill a white man out of rage. And he didn't think of any of the consequences before he did ny of this, what would happen to him or where he would wind up. And all of these actions caused what happened helped what cause to leading up to his death. And Aristotle's pro was to find the reasons of reversal of fortune , okonkwo does. He sees what he has done looking back at his past killing the messenger, the tribesman, having to leave his tribe. He realizes that and decides to take his own life. He hangs himself. And for being such a birdbrain. And if he wasn't so stubborn, inflexible, maybe all of this would have been avoided, maybe he could of enjoyed life and the simple
things.
Okonkwo death was not right, and it was shocking.
Okonkwo should of died a hero's death. Okonkwo should of taken two machetes in both hands and run straight at the white people and try to kill as many as he could of. Because he believes that what he believes in is worth dying for and he is right. Since he hanged himself it's not really a hero's death. But how could he die a hero's death since he was really the only one to speak his mind and state what he wanted to say. He was the rock to break the river. He realized that and decided to take his own life and hang himself. He would rather have his fate be decided by his hands rather than the hands of a white man. But he still died a hero's death because he stood up to the white men and spoke his mind and the truth. HE did die a hero's death, he died with
dignity.
Okonkwo fits all of Aristotle’s characteristics of a tragic hero, He had many flaws but only a few impacted his outcome, he also had many errors, and they made him look back on what he did and the punishments if them and why he did them. HE regrets those decisions mostly and Okonkwo is a tragic hero because he portrays Aristotle's characteristics of being a tragic hero.