What Drives A Man         What makes a successful man? This, in itself, is a culture bound question because it can vary from culture to culture. However, in the perception of Okonkwo, the main character in Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart, the measure of a man's success is based on two elements, material acquisition and growth, and physical prowess. This is ironic for Okonkwo since his people's typical idea of success seems to be constructed …showed first 75 words of 1589 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1589 total…man's book, The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann         Educational Publishers, 1986. 2. Aristotle. Aristotle: The Poetics. 'The Longinus: On the Sublime.' Cambridge,         Mass., Harvard University Press, 1960. 3. Ravenscroft, A. Chinua Achebe. Great Britain: Longmans, Green & CO LTD,         1969. 4. Serumaga, Robert. 'A Mirror of Integration.' Protest and Conflict in African         Literature (1969) 76 5. Taiwo, Oladele. Culture and the Nigerian Novel. New York: St. Martin's Press,         1976.