Okonkw’s Insecurity

There are a broadcast of factors in a individuals life that contribute to their sentiment of risk. plastered events might cause that, mostly it tends to be childhood events. Men usually generate to cover their insecure sense of smellings by fashioning sure they appear strong and realitylike while deep down they could be very washy. A person feeling insecure is normal but insecurity taking over a person might result in his downfall. Thats what happened to Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart.Okonkwos fixation with what others think of him started from an early age, which would drive him to be insecure. Okonkwos father is the priming coat for Okonkwos insecurity. His dad being viewed as a nothing would make Okonkwo wants to be viewed as everything his father wasnt. Okonkwos first antecedency is to maintain his masculinity in comportment of bulk, which would lead him to success at first. But, afterward on he would be so panic-struck to look weak, that he breaks a lot of triba l rules just to nutriment his image intact.Okonkwo starts breaking the rules by lacing his youngest wife Ojiugo during the week of peace because she leftover the hut without cooking dinner. He afterward one does another fatal delusion that would start leading to his fall down, he kills the boy which called him father although the clans leader and the authorities told him not to. Okonkwo love Ikemfuna but he still killed him because he resembles whatever feelings with femininity and for him any target of femininity is being weak. Feeling weak wrong, Okonkwo would do actions to make people feel down.Insecure people insult others because they think that, by making someone else down it pass on make them feel better just about themselves. Thats exactly what Okonkwo does when he tells Sugo a man without titles- This meeting is for men, who implies that he is not a man, but actually a cleaning lady, who is a weak creature in Okonkwos view. The reason why Okonkwo specifically att acked Sugo by implying that he is a woman is because insecure people attack the things they are most afraid of.Another reason why he ever criticizes people is because, deep down, he feels inferior. This oddly shows when his wife, Ekwefi, says guns that never shot. He straight translates that as a critique of his masculinity. As a result, he starts beating her, view that this will prove his masculinity, while it entirely shows the opposite. It actually makes him seem weaker. Okonkwo hides all his emotions under(a) a mask because he associates any form of emotion, such as compassionateness and love, to being feminine.Okonkwo tries to hide his emotions from his daughter Ezinma. Although she is his dearie child, he refuses to show her any lovable of emotion, supposedly, to maintain his masculinity. Another example of how Okonkwo tries to hide how he feels is when he kills his son Ikemefuna. Upon cleaning him, Okonkwo feels too much pain inside of him that he thinks of himself as a woman. However, afraid of being viewed as weak, he keeps trying to hide his feelings. Instead, his body responds and starts to better without him noticing it.