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SOURCE: "Okonkwo As Yeatsian Hero: The Influence of W. B. Yeats on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart," in The Literary Criterion, Vol. XXX, No. 4, pp. 1-14.

In the following essay, Criswell traces thematic parallels between Things Fall Apart and Yeats's play On Baile's Strand, focusing on conceptual similarities that characterize the tragic hero in each work.

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Okonkwo's father is sometimes held responsible for his own action, while at other times he is referred to as a "victim" of evil fortune.Do you think Okonkwo and Achebe believes its true?
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