Compare Okonkwo and Gatzby

Title: Compare Okonkwo and Gatzby
Category: History
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Compare Okonkwo and Gatzby

The Great Gatsby and Things Fall Apart Comparative essay By: For: Course: English Date: In 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 …showed first 75 words of 954 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 954 total…daughter and Gatsby by doing everything for Daisy. It is their hubris; Okonkwo’s Umuofian dream of a perfect society, and Gatsby’s belief that you can change the past, that leads them to their agonizing fates that they do not deserve; Okonkwo’s world being destroyed, and then his suicide and the truth that Daisy doesn’t love Jay. Seeing these three points it is evident that both, Okonkwo and Gatsby, are tragic heroes.

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