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Loss of Culture and position

pointlessness of existence

misplaced pride

used to be a powerful member of the village (hero in position of power)

when he returns to the village the war like culture is no longer there and the people start to give up on their way of life (boomerang and pity) this leads to him killing the messenger because of his pride (personality flaw)

“Okonkwo was clearly cut out for great things. He was still young but he had won fame as the greatest wrestler in the nine villages. He was a wealthy farmer and had two barns full of yams, and had just married his third wife. To crown it all he had taken two titles and had shown incredible prowess in two inter-tribal wars”

“In a flash Okonkwo drew his machete. The messenger crouched to avoid the blow.It was useless. Okonkwo's machete descended twice and the man's head lay beside his uniformed body.” “The waiting backcloth jumped into tumultuous life and the meeting was stopped. Okonkwo stood looking at the dead man. He knew that Umuofia would not go to war. He knew because they had let the other messengers escape”

realizes that the tribe will not fight (discover) with his pride still intact he kills himself (hero through flaw)

ended up just like his father by becoming unholdy thus his life is pointless (pity)

“Then they came to the tree from which Okonkwo's body was dangling, and they stopped dead.”

“The waiting backcloth jumped into tumultuous life and the meeting was stopped. Okonkwo stood looking at the dead man. He knew that Umuofia would not go to war. He knew because they had let the other messengers escape”

“When a man was afflicted with swelling in the stomach and the limbs he was not allowed to die in the house. He was carried to the Evil Forest and left there to die” (father)

“His body is evil, and only strangers may touch it. That is why we ask your people to bring him down, because you are strangers."

tries to hard to be unlike father and become proud,ill-tempered, and cruel (character flaw)

believes his is the best in his tribe (hubris)

“Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children.” “Even as a little boy he had resented his father's failure and weakness, and even now he still remembered how he had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was agbala. That was how Okonkwo first came to know that agbala was not only another name for a woman, it could also mean a man who had taken no title. “Okonkwo was ruled by one passion - to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved” “Ojiugo's return. 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 pleading with him that it was the sacred week.” “Without further argument Okonkwo gave her a sound beating and left her and her only daughter weeping. Neither of the other wives dared to interfere beyond an occasional and tentative, "It is enough, Okonkwo,

“And so when Okonkwo of Umuofia arrived at Mbaino as the proud and imperious emissary of war, he was treated with great honour and respect, and two days later he returned home with a lad of fifteen and a young virgin” “He heard Ikemefuna cry, "My father, they have killed me!" as he ran towards him. Dazed with fear, Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of being thought weak.” “He was a flaming fire. How then could he have begotten a son like Nwoye, degenerate and effeminate?” "They were fools," said Okonkwo after a pause. "They had been warned that danger was ahead. They should have armed themselves with their guns and their machetes even when they went to market." "Let us not reason like cowards," said Okonkwo. "If a man comes into my hut and defecates on the floor, what do I do? Do I shut my eyes? No! I take a stick and break his head That is what a man does. These people are daily pouring filth over us, and Okeke says we should pretend not to see." Okonkwo made a