Compare Okonkwo and Gatzby
The Great Gatsby and Things Fall ApartIn this world there are heroes and villains. Neither Gatsby nor Okonkwo are good or bad. Okonkwo seems bad early on, when he beats his wives; he does however show compassion when he goes after Ezinma. Gatsby does something illegal, but everything he does is for Daisy. Their fatal flaws blind both Gatsby and Okonkwo. Okonkwo's hubris is that he believes in the Umuofian dream of a perfect society, while Gatsby believes that he is able to erase the past. Their fates are worse than they deserved, Okonkwo is banished from Umuofia after accidentally killing someone and Gatsby does not have the love of Daisy, as he believes. Both Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart and Gatsby from The Great Gatsby are tragic heroes. In Things Fall Apart it seems as if Okonkwo is bad, as he beats his wives and children, he does however show compassion. One night Chielo comes and takes Ezinma to her cave. Okonkwo stays when Ekwefi, against what everyone else says, goes. "When he thought he had waited long enough he again returned to the shrine. But the Hills and the Caves were as silent as death. It was only on his fourth trip that he had found Ekwefi,
"'I found out what your "drug-stores" were. Gatsby has a lot of money, and he achieved it through illegal means. During a ceremony celebrating a clansman's death his gun exploded and killed that mans son. Neither Gatsby nor Okonkwo is good or bad; they seem bad at times, Okonkwo by beating his wives and children, and Gatsby by his illegal dealings; yet they are good as well, Okonkwo by following his daughter and Gatsby by doing everything for Daisy. When he has been buried we will then do our duty by him. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them. If he had not have known her, than he would not have done all that he had. " (Achebe, 1959, 112) Okonkwo must be a man without fear, and he pretends not to have any feelings, but he shows love when he goes after his daughter. 'Why of course you can!' (Fitzgerald, 1925, 70) Gatsby wants Daisy to leave Tom so that He and Daisy can start from the beginning, as if Tom never happened. " (Achebe, 1959, 124) Even if he felt it unfair he still believed it was just, as he later returned after the minimum period of exile. "I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. He was then forced to flee from Umuofia.
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