Like most African homes, Okonkwo’s household is merely dictated by man. Okonkwo, the man of his house, takes this to a whole new level. His physical presence can be felt when a mistake …show more content…
Okonkwo’s thinks that everybody should be as great as himself. This includes his son, Nwoye, who is very different from Okonkwo. Okonkwo’s high expectations for Nwoye are very different than what kind of person Nwoye is. Nwoye, a passive character, is expected by his father to be a “tough young man capable of ruling his father’s household when he (Okonkwo) was dead” (Achebe 52). This seems unrealistic for Nwoye’s characteristics. This unreasonable expectation is very similar to Creon’s expectation of noone burying Polyneices’ dead body. He believes this decision is a good one as “you can see the wisdom behind it”(Sophocles 197). This law is very unreasonable and not wise as the man who died had a family. This would obviously lead to a problem in the future. Similar to Okonkwo, Creon believes all of his decisions are correct because they follow civil