The struggle between personalized values and conversion is a theme universally applied to Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The fable-like and tragic tone of the work stood out from the first page. The verb FALL AWAY has 4 senses: to lose one's emotional or mental composure, to fall apart, to break or fall into fragments, and to separate into pieces or fragments. These are all exemplified in the novel Things Fall Apart. Okonkwo is a tragic hero in the traditional sense. His fate was decided for him and was inevitable. Okonkwo's inability to act rationally and express his feelings anthropologically leads to his inevitable death. Okonkwo displays the characteristics of a tragic hero by not just harboring an unexceptional flaw. Okonkwo not only developed this flaw because of his mistaken equivalence between masculinity and being full of implacable fury, vehemence, and impetuosity, but also because it leads to his own self-annihilation. Fury is defined by violent, uncontrolled anger. The passage used by Achebe as the epigraph of the novel “Turning and turning in the widening vortex The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Simple anarchy is unleashed in the world,” can be applied to Okonkwo himself. He is so blinded and deafened by his past memories and wants to oppose them that simple anarchy is unleashed in his life and his family. Okonkwo's fervent internal battles to be as unlike his deceased father as possible gave him great status, but failed to ensure his happiness. He still hasn't achieved everything he wanted in life. Okonkwo felt great disappointment because his son Nwoye did not like the masculine behaviors displayed by him. ... middle of paper ... society weakens and depresses Okonkwo so much that he takes his own life by hanging. Hanging is seen as a truly shameful death in today's society and ancient societies. Okonkwo collapsed under the white man's new society in Umofia. He could no longer act on his fury, vehemence, or impetuosity, because acting in those nonconforming ways brought him no further advancement and was frowned upon. Okonkwo lost his mental calm and everything in his life fell apart because of it. His lack of sensitivity and understanding towards those who are different from him has hindered his entire life. It was further proven that Okonkwo's strength had many faults because he was not strong in the important aspects of having composure and not acting on impulse. He could no longer control the people around him, nor his own life, so he became the misfortune of a classic tragedy.
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