Vulnerability In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Trying to understand what vulnerability is and what it does to people has been the core of many research studies and investigations. Thereafter, they’ve found that vulnerability is to live without any emotional safeguards and is manifested habitually and subconsciously. People often associate vulnerability with fear, the fear of not having a wall to block intense emotions. When people block intimidating emotions they equally block beneficial emotions that help them mentally mature and fully develop. Each emotion fits into smaller portions of each other to help divide and understand what that emotion represents. Feeling vulnerable causes people to suppress real emotion and leads them to create and follow through their own self fulfilling prophecy.
There are a lot of emotions that can be shown or represented in a negative light. A common result of mixing “bad” emotions is a self fulfilling prophecy. After becoming
In the postcolonial novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, (page 13) it's apparent that the main character Okonkwo is an ideal example of what shame does to a person and how it becomes that person as a whole. “Okonkwo was ruled by one passion- to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved.” Okonkwo was so ashamed of his past that he’d do anything to suppress any type of similarity brought up in his present life. When someone constantly focuses on what they can't be, that person easily gets enveloped in the negativity. Disregarding becomes to much of a task and that person eventually becomes what they never wanted to be. Shame is the angst someone gets from doing something out of the norm, or not in character of what that person should be. The quote shows that Okonkwo knew what he couldn't be and what to do to avoid that, as shame can often bring out different reactions, his shame was what ultimately led to his