Okonkwo Tragic Hero

What Made Okonkwo A Tragic Hero Things Fall apart is a tragic story. This story is about a man called Okonkwo from the umuofia clan,like all tragic stories, he is the man that stands the unforchunate, from where he started, to where he was buried. This is a story that took place in africa, before the discovery europeans made at the 15th century. This essay will discuss the road Okonkwo went through that made him a tragic hero. At the Beginning of the story Okonkwo was presented as a strong, successful and hardworking man. This is how the book introduced him, “ he earn honor for his village by beating amalinze the cat in a wrestling contest. Okonkwo was a successful farmer, he has 2 full warehouse Full of food, and he has three wives in the
On the orcal it showed Ikemefuna has to be killed, so Okonkwo lied to Ikemefuna to take him back to his original clan, but on the way going there, Ikemefuna is under attack by a man with machete, he asked for help from Okonkwo, saying he only want to see his mother for once, and Okonkwo’s flaw came to him, and he killed his “son” to show he isn’t weak. The following quote is the example: “The pot fell and broke in the sand. He heard Ikemefuna cry, My father they have killed me! As he ran towards him. Dazed with fear, Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of being thought weak”. There is another downfall of him where he Broke the week of peace, he beat his wife and shot her, luckily he is a bad shot, that didn’t kill her, but this have not just shamed this event, but completely ruined
After returning from the 7 years exile, the world around Okonkwo changed dramatically, in only three years, he realized his home has because a place of european colonist, the europeans came in and company with many local africans, and they built hospital, church and school. Even everythings seems to be going well Okonkwo did not welcome those outsiders, in fact most of the africans did not, it could be identified from the religion issues, the europeans and the locals did not believe the same god, Mr. Brown said there was only one god that created everything, but the locals believed that there are multiple god that made the nature, the return argument from Mr. Brown is that the god africans believed in are woods, stone, water not real gods. The longer the europeans stay, the more angry Okonkwo is, but the key point is, because of the arrival of the europeans, his popularity and his fame is going down and down, he realize he is no longer the most powerful/successful man in this village. The quote below mentioned: “These court messengers were greatly hated in Umuofia because they were foreigners and also arrogant and high-handed. They were called kotma, and because of their as-colored