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Women play a big role in Okonkwo's life. He uses his wives' to show how it is to be manly. His belief in that to be manly he needs complete control of them. Although there are women that clash with his beliefs. Ezinma is an example of this as she has many traits that would make him proud.

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The role of "chi" in the novel in the novel acts as like an unavoidable force with either Okonkwo's unchanging personality causing his fall. Achebe feels that someone has control over his/her own destiny if you put enough effort into it.

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Things Fall Apart functions as a tragedy as most characters that we have come to know, have died. The hope that you have that Okonkwo would adapt and change, but in the end he doesn't

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Okonkwo’s violent behavior towards his wives serves as a way for him to maintain his sense of masculinity. He has been shown to emphasize the importance of being able to control the women in the family. However, he does show respectful behavior towards female spiritual figures such as Chielo. His attitude towards women changes based on whether their role in Umuofia society is a caregiver or a woman who serves an important spiritual purpose.

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Things Fall Apart was a tragic novel. This novel battled a lot of change in each of their lives.

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I feel like silence can be portrayed in both a positive and negative way. Although, in most cases it comes from a negative part.

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In Umuofia, it is traditional for men to be warriors and fierce while women to stay at home feed their family and take care of them. Okonkwo beats his wives when he feels they aren't doing the right thing and nothing will stop him from doing it. He feels he is superior to them.

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Compared to the drums and music throughout the novel, silence can be characterized as a negative occurrence happening when an event so shocking happens, everyone is speechless.

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In Umuofia, society is run based on a patriarchal system, where men are the head of the household and women are the servants. Similarly in the past, the west was run by a patriarchal system. Men had high paying jobs and leadership positions, while women had almost zero to no rights. Most women were housewives, if not they were living with their parents waiting to married off hopefully into a wealthy family.

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Silence can be characterized as negative when a bad event is foreshadowed.

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Things Fall Apart is a tragedy that records the suffering of various individuals and the society.

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Okonkwo does everything in his power to be better than his father. He works hard to become a respected figure in the village but in the end all his hard work is for nothing because he kills a kid, he gets exiled, and he eventually kills himself.

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In a lot of societies, women are just seen as home makers and their role in relationships/marriages is to be submissive to their husbands. Like in the novel. But more "masculine" or authoritative women are taken seriously, like the priestess. the way Okonkwo treats her is very different than the way he treats his wives.

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Even now like then people have a feeling where women can't do what men do and or as if more can't be done. I guess some people can take it as a culture or a belief.

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A man who cannot give orders and a woman who cannot take orders are deemed as unfit for Umuofian society and must be cast out.

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To Okonkwo, he believes women are meant to do housework and care for the children. He sees them as trophies in a way as having multiple wives signifies greater power in their culture. He believes they need to listen to him/be obedient to him and he isn't afraid of beating them if they fail to do so.

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Towards the end, Okonkwo is the only one willing to go to war with the Europeans and he realizes he's now sort of alone in his ideas and actions which is why he's a tragic hero.

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Silence occurs when something is wrong. I believe that there is a possibility that you can either be nervous or calm about it. Depends on your reaction to silence and your experience with it. I always think of the parts where people say "lets take a moment of silence." But than you have silences in horror movies. It can be positive and negative.

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For the entirety of the novel you're looking for Okonkwo to change-to fulfill his adventurer's journey-but he never does. Every high he reaches is only proceeded with a newer and greater low. He shoots a child, he gets exiled, and eventually he, the protagonist, hangs himself. Our good guys don't win in the end, and that, for me, is what cements this book as a tragedy.

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Okonkwo starts out as a successful and respected figure in his village, and he got these results through hard work and acting by his definition of masculinity, which involves violence. To him, this was the best approach, and he truly believed that he followed the right path. However, by the end of the book, his family was no longer the same again and he ended up killing himself. His way of life both resulted in his success in the beginning and his downfall in the end.

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Okonkwo goes through a lot and doesn't get it his way.

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Silence can be used to enhance a specific moment as more dramatic or important. It gives the scenario a more intense feeling whether it's positive or negative.

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There is a lot of toxic masculinity within the culture. Women are to cook and clean and obey their husbands. Meanwhile men are to work and control their wives.

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Okonkwo believes that women should stay in their traditional roles as cooks and looking after their children as indicated by custom.

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Okonkwo was born in a poor family, but had immense talent and hard work. He was able to climb up the ladders of his clan and gain the respects of many. He was a talented wrestler and a fierce warrior. However, this started to go down when the missionaries came and it was no longer about who was the strongest or most manly. However, Okonkwo refuse to change his personality and stayed true to his nature which sadly led to his downfall. Once a talented, respected warrior now just a man on a tree buried like a dog.

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Okonkwo seems to see women mostly as a means for more power and a larger family. Okonkwo controls them more directly, but his wives also control him in the sense that if they did not want to marry him, he would not have the power he has.

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Nearly everything that can go wrong goes wrong.

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i think with the role of chi, achebe probably believes in free will. it acts as like intuition guiding you in decision making, Implying we are in control of our own destiny.

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Okonkwo's death is seen as a tragedy, so his chi must've been bad and he couldn't overcome it.

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Okonkwo is an adamant person. He refuses to take no for an answer, even if it harms him. When his entire society abandons what he sees as the proper way of life, he refuses to accept what his people have become, and believes that if the living has left him behind, then he will have to choice than to join the dead that respect his way of life.

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I feel like silence can be both a positive and a negative thing bc in one way its like the quote "if you dont have anything nice to say dont say it at all", but on the negative side if something bad is happening and you dont say anything to deescalate the situation you're being a bystander.