african literature

1. DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH.M.K.B.U.
Name:- Dave Mayuri P.
M.A.Sem-4 Roll no:- 13.
Paper no:-14 The African Literature.
Topic name- “Okonkwo as a tragic Hero”
Submitted By:- Department of English.

2. Introduction of Things Fall Apart:-
Things Fall Apart is Postcolonial
novel written by Chinua Achebe in
1958.
The novel follows the life of
Okonkwo an Igbo culture.
The novel Spilt inyto three parts:
1) Okonkwo’s family, customes and
society of the Igbo.
2 & 3 part introduce of British
colonialism and Christian
missionaries on the Igbo
community.

3. Okonkwo as a tragic Hero
In Chinua Achebe’s novel ‘Things Fall Apart’.
Okonkwo is a tragic hero.
Okonkwo leader and hardworking member
of the Igbo Community of Umuofia whose
tragic flaw is greater fear of weakness and
failure.
Okonkwo’s fall from grace in the Igbo
community and eventual sucides, makes
Okonkwo a tragic hero by Aristotel’s
defination.
Okonkwo is a man of action , a man of war
and a member of high status in the Igbo
village.
The Igbo culture had made Okonkwo a
hero, but the Igbo culture change with the

4.  Okonkwo a hero, would rather die than be humiliated by his
enemies and by Commiting sucides Okonkwo Prevented the
European Colonisers from getting revange.
 Okonkwo's often wonders how he, a man great strength
and work ethic, could have had a son who is degenerate
and Effeminate Okonkwo's things that,
“No matter how Prosperous a
man was if we was
unable to rule his women and
his children..he was not
really a man.”
Okonkwo’s wrestles with his fear that any sign of weakness
will cause him to lose control of his family, Position in the
village, and even himself.

5. Okonkwo as a tragic hero
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6.  Okonkwo‘s downfall is a result of the change created by coming of
the British Colonisers to Igbo
 Okonkwo’s seven year exile, the village
Okonkwo’s once Knew his changed due
to the influence of Christianity and the
Influence of the British Missionaries and
officers.
 Okonkwo’s Intial reaction is to arm the clean agaist the colonisers
and drive the British people out of igbo.
“ He has Put a knief on the
things that held us
together and we have
fallen apart.”
 Okonkwo resists change at every step and instead resorts to
violance
Toward anything he perceived as a threat to his culture or value.

7.  Okonkwo recognizes that Umuofia would not go to war,
because the clean”had broken into tumult instead of action.”
 Okonkwo knows that he must now face his disgrace alone.
 Okonkwo’s like many tragic heroes before him, may be a
hero but his tragic flaw Prevents him from achieving true
greatness as a human beings.