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Things Fall Apart - Okonkwo's life is dominated by a rigid view of honour; what are the values and beliefs he follows? How do these ideas influence his behaviour and how do they ultimately destroy him?
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Okonkwo's life is dominated by a rigid view of honour; what are the values and beliefs he follows? How do these ideas influence his behaviour and how do they ultimately destroy him? Things Fall Apart is a novel, which is directly focused on the tribes and the local life of the native people. The protagonist in this novel is a proud strict and tough man with the name of Okonkwo. Okonkwo was born in the mid-nineteenth century, in the Igbo village of Umuofia, (which we now know as southeastern Nigeria). Okonkwo's life was "dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness". His father was a man who had no titles and was called a woman. One main thing we learn in this novel is that these tribes hold great respect for men who had a title. One man who didn't have any titles and was referred to, as a woman...
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