Examples Of Fear In Things Fall Apart

No one wants to become failure or weakness in his or her life. That’s why people have their own choices, securities, and determination in the society. Things Fall Apart tells a story of Okonkwo, whose life was so much up and down. Basically, it responded to change the life style from darkness. The novel also reveals that Okonkwo’s fear of failure and of weakness in his life. This paper will talk about Okonkwo’s fear of failure and of weakness in his mundane life.

In the novel, most of the characters underwent horror incidents that led to fear of weaknesses. Okonkwo fears of becoming like his idle, disgraceful and shameful father. Ekwefi fears of losing her daughter and Nwoye foreshadows of grandfather. While most characters fear events that

Because the younger age group had not held the tribe mutually, their future is indefinite and terrible.

Moreover, Nwoye had already known about his father’s attitude towards missionaries. If he showcased that he was captured by the missionaries and he would have betrayed. That’s why fear can sometimes control us from wrong or harming people. Subsequently, like Nwoye it feels really petty on his mother.

Achebe reveals that Okonkwo was afraid of dying like his father although he had strong determination to fight against enemies. In doing so, he behaves in such a great manner. That’s why fear can often harm our precious life as well. Okonkwo tried to save his town and bring it back to how it was before. But he could not bother to fight anymore. The fear of failure and not being good enough is displayed in several characters in the novel. Through his writing, Achebe resumed the images of African societies as they are embodied within the western literary practice and resumed his own and his people's

He was only known fragile hope after being shared to his uncle. He was violently against to the Christians, because Nwoye converted to Christian and realized that his own greed has made his sons weak. He was very happy that the villagers had burnt down the church in Umuofia, but this rebellion transforms to be short-lived. He finally committed suicide thinking that he doesn’t want to die from white missionaries. Accordingly, with reference to ‘The Ballad of Pemi Tshewang Tashi; ‘A Wind Borne Feather’ where Chamberland, Pemai Tshewang Tashi jumped from the Thomangdrak, cliff and committed suicide. This is because; he thought that he does not want to die from the hands of rival from Jakar Dzongpoen, Pema Tenzin’s side. It shows us that weakness, downfall and dehumanization on Okonkwo and Pemai Tshewang Tashi’s side (Ura, 1996).

However, Achebe is trying to expose the readers that all cultures are attractive and even some people struggles and dies for their cultures thinking that their own cultures may get deteriorated by other powerful people in the world. The idea of fear within Things Fall Apart depicts that a fear, social injustice, racism and so on. It creates the people to change others or individual’s culture yet they do not adapt to their