The world is
make up with different kinds of culture from all over the world. And in the
world full of different cultures there’s so many different morals. Moral is the
principle in which someone believes in. So what one moral mean to one person
and can be completely wrong or right in someone’s mind. Almost having a double
meaning. Okonkwo wants to be respected by his fellow clan, seems to be
uncertain of what his morals seems to be.
During the
scene when they took Ikemefuna to the forest to kill him, the others suggested
that Okonkwo should not be present when the killing took place. But yet he
still showed up and even took part in the killing. But when he returned to his
home, he felt immensely guilty about it. The one thing in the world Okonkwo
strongly didn’t want to be was just like his father was. Weak. So killing
Ikemefuna was just another way to prove to his clan he wasn’t weak like his
father. Later on in the book, Okonkwo kills the messenger and feeling shame, he
later kills himself.
Both of these
situations show that Okonkwo desires to be prove the member of his clan that he
is unlike is father. But after the killings, he felt extreme remorse in the
end. Thinking that he is “weak”, he commits suicide in the end. His morals did
not match up to what he expected. His efforts into trying to prove one thing,
had the opposite reaction than what he had expected. So technically speaking,
was his actual morals is what other thinks about him, than what he thinks about
himself?
-Samantha Pubien
