... not get his words out quickly enough, he would use his fists. He had no patience with unsuccessful men. He had no patience with his father". This point is proved many times in the novel and one of the recurring examples is the Striking of his wives, where at on e stage he could have killed her by shotting at her. The honour and beliefs Okonkwo follows are the same as any other man in the tribe except that Oknokwos beliefs are to an extreme extent. One thing we have to keep in mind is the fact that "his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwos fear was greater than these. ...

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