Okonkwo A Tragic Hero Essay

Okonkwo was a tragic hero because he was a great warrior, great wrestler, and had multiple wives. Okonkwo’s flaw is that he has too much pride that led to his downfall. Throughout the course of senior year literature, we have read several stories that have tragic heroes as their main characters. In Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo is the tragic hero. Okonkwo relates to Willy in Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, and Oedipus in Oedipus, by Sophocles Oedipus. Okonkwo is a tragic hero because he is great warrior. Okonkwo’s father Unoka, did not hand down him anything when he grew older. Okonkwo had no patience with his father, because he was a lazy man and never did any work and always spent his money. (Chapter 1, page 4) Okonkwo does not want to grow up and be like his father. Okonkwo is a great wrestler and was known throughout his village plus other surrounding villages. (Chapter 1, page 1) When Okonkwo was a young boy around the age of 18, he won against one of the great wrestlers Cat. (Chapter 1, page1) Okonkwo had several wives, and
Both Okonkwo and Willy have similarities and differences. In Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo committed suicide because he killed the messenger, and his flaw of pride caused his downfall.Willy committed suicide by crashing his car on purpose to kill himself, after multiple times of trying to commit suicide. Both men’s goals in life is to want to be seen as heroes for their families, after their death and now in the present. Throughout their lives both men rarely ever faced reality. Okonkwo’s tragic flaw caused his downfall, unlike Willy who let his downfall take over his life several times, both men had a flaw of having too much pride. The main two differences between Okonkwo and Willy is the time period and the setting where the novel took place. Death of a Salesman, took place in New York, and Things Fall Apart takes place in little