The Inflexibility and Hubris of Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall

The Inflexibility and Hubris of Okonkwo in Chinua Achebes Things Fall asunderThis reinvigorated is the definitive tragic model about the dissolution of the Afri wad Ibo culture by Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe. Okonkwo, a great and heroic leader, is damn by his inflexibility and hubris. He is driven by fear of failure. He had no patience with unsuccessful men. He had no patience with his father. Unoka, for that was his fathers name, had died cristal years ago. In his day he was lazy and improvident, and was quite unequal to(p) of thinking about tomorrow. (Achebe,4).The reader gets a rargon and exotic thought of a totally foreign and ancient culture experiencing the growing form of colonial expansion during the British domination of Nigeria in the late 1800s. Okonkwos ferocity is demonstrated in the carrying out of his personal dread to the letter inwardly his family, his community, and the invaders. His ferocity, born of fear, is his evil. During the week of Peace, one of Okonkwos wives, Ojiugo, has left the compound, ignoring her children and domestic duties, to plait her hair. And when she returned, he beat her very heavily. In his anger he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace. His first two wives ran out in great alarm appeal with him that it was the sacred week. (Achebe, 29) But Okonkwo was not a man to stop beating somebody half-way through, not even for fear of a goddess. (Achebe, 30)Being uneffective to bend, he loses self-control and eventually all he has once stood for. The novel examples rites, initiations, and tribal customs whose images can be disturbing to western mentality, but also stresses the parallels and need in all cultures to have such ceremonies acknowlight-emitting diodeging measurable events in... ... make interesting reading. One could almost write a in all chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph, at any rate ... He had already elect the title of the book, after much thought The P acification of the Primitive Tribes On The Lower Niger. (Achebe, 208-209)Achebe suggests that colonialism has led to this entire tragedy, but the seeds of dread and self-will are obvious in Okonkwo. He is not a survivor. Our goal is to survive. In our journey through this life of good and evil influences, we purposefully engage our own end by the choices we make along the way. Success can be defined as the acceptance of all of our experience that has led us where we are today. Acceptance of ourselves is the key to acceptance and tolerance of others.whole kit and boodle CitedAchebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Oxford, Eng. Heinemann Educational Pub., 1996.