OKONKWO AS A CONFOUND TRAGIC HERO AND A CONFOUND MASCULINE FIGURE IN THINGS FALL APART

The story is brilliantly told of a vigorous young man reckoned as ¨the proud and imperious emissary of war¨, profound in his title. His personality was deeply revered and feared by the people around him, especially his wives and kids. How a brave unyielding pride of Umuofia once so reverential became a tragic hero, drowned by his own catharsis and inextricable peripeteia of life unleashed upon our hero Okonkwo. While travailing to keep his name venerated and revered, the protagonist is found perplexed as a father and as a hero of Umuofia; obliged to honour the peace offering and dare not defy the Oracle of the Hills and Caves. Ambiguously, Okonkwo is a confounding tragic hero who struggles with his own assumption of a successful masculine figure. His pursuit to become a diametric figure than his father Unoka made him less gentle of a kind for his loved ones. Which, in the end, is the ramification of his own downfall. He is left betrayed by his own drudge to remain a standing model of Umuofia.