Sunday, July 4, 2010

How does the Father-son relationship throughout three generations shape the personalities of Okonkwo and Nwoye in Things Fall Apart?

There is an Englishto the effect that trying to avoid making ones fathers mistakes
leads, all too often, to making ones grandfathers mistakes.despised his father, , who is already
dead at the beginning of the book, and it has become one of the major preoccupations of his life
to be as different from his father as possible. Unoka was a lazy, cowardly man: poor and
unsuccessful, constantly in debt, and mainly interested in drinking and playing the flute. No
one feared or respected him. He had one wife, for whom he could not provide, and took no
title.

Okonkwo is the complete opposite of his father in every one of these
respects. He is wealthy, feared, and respected, a brave warrior and a wrestler. He has multiple
wives and barns full of yams, and he even hates music because he associates it with his father.
He is a harsh disciplinarian who beats and berates his son,, for his laziness. Nwoye is already
becoming a sad-faced youth, resembling his...

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