Consider the following excerpt from Chinua Achebe's *Things Fall Apart*:

"Okonkwo was a man of action, a man of war. He was a man who thought that a man who could not work his land was a failure. He feared the thought of being thought weak, for his father had been weak and died in obscurity."

What does this passage reveal about Okonkwo's personality and motivations?

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Consider the following excerpt from Chinua Achebe's *Things Fall Apart*:

"Okonkwo was a man of action, a man of war. He was a man who thought that a man who could not work his land was a failure. He feared the thought of being thought weak, for his father had been weak and died in obscurity."

What does this passage reveal about Okonkwo's personality and motivations?

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He is driven by a deep fear of appearing weak, stemming from his father's failure, which makes him overly aggressive and determined to prove his strength through hard work and warfare.

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