Okonkwo Vs Romeo
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Okonkwo denied his father and Things Fall Apart
In the village Umuofia they called him Okonkwo. A wrestler and warrior made famous throughout nine villages after throwing Amalinze the Cat. Like fire his fame would grow and along with it, his ego. Intimidating in stature and a mean man, against Shakespeare’s Romeo handsome physic you would never think their lives would run parallel. Okonkwo a man of age and wisdom verses Romeo’s immature romantic ways; it would be hard to see how analogous they are. With very different personalities and titles, Okonkwo being a self-made man vs. Romeo’s noble birthright, how can two very different men at different ages find the same fate?
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Oknokwo unfamiliar with a gun and at a funeral, his gun accidentally fires, shoots, and kills a sixteen-year-old boy. Crime of passion and crime against the earth goddess, it is not until the murders occur that both Okonkwo and Romeo realize their ways of love and hate have caused their own weaknesses to be their own demise.
“He had been cast out of his clan like a fish on to a dry, sandy beach, panting. Clearly his personal god or chi was not made for great things.”
Banished from Verona for the murder of Tybalt, Romeo pays one last visit to Juliet confessing his love. Okonkwo stripped of his title and forced out of Umuofia and back to his motherland of Mbanta for seven year. Bitter and angry he plans his great return while Romeo would rather die then be without his love. Both men pass days in a limbo of love and hate until their grand return. However, fate would have another plan for them. Upon his return to Umuofia, Oknokwo finds his village nothing as it was before. White men have taken over converting his people away from their traditions and Romeo fateful news of Juliet’s death, irrationally both men act out their fate in a deathly romance of “if you always do what always did, you will always get what you always
Okonkwo denied his father and Things Fall Apart
In the village Umuofia they called him Okonkwo. A wrestler and warrior made famous throughout nine villages after throwing Amalinze the Cat. Like fire his fame would grow and along with it, his ego. Intimidating in stature and a mean man, against Shakespeare’s Romeo handsome physic you would never think their lives would run parallel. Okonkwo a man of age and wisdom verses Romeo’s immature romantic ways; it would be hard to see how analogous they are. With very different personalities and titles, Okonkwo being a self-made man vs. Romeo’s noble birthright, how can two very different men at different ages find the same fate?
Okonkwo, unlike his father, …show more content…
Oknokwo unfamiliar with a gun and at a funeral, his gun accidentally fires, shoots, and kills a sixteen-year-old boy. Crime of passion and crime against the earth goddess, it is not until the murders occur that both Okonkwo and Romeo realize their ways of love and hate have caused their own weaknesses to be their own demise.
“He had been cast out of his clan like a fish on to a dry, sandy beach, panting. Clearly his personal god or chi was not made for great things.”
Banished from Verona for the murder of Tybalt, Romeo pays one last visit to Juliet confessing his love. Okonkwo stripped of his title and forced out of Umuofia and back to his motherland of Mbanta for seven year. Bitter and angry he plans his great return while Romeo would rather die then be without his love. Both men pass days in a limbo of love and hate until their grand return. However, fate would have another plan for them. Upon his return to Umuofia, Oknokwo finds his village nothing as it was before. White men have taken over converting his people away from their traditions and Romeo fateful news of Juliet’s death, irrationally both men act out their fate in a deathly romance of “if you always do what always did, you will always get what you always