1. Fear and hatred have a simple, but sometimes illusory, relationship. Many people, including Shakespeare, have defined this relationship as that hatred arises from fear. In the first five chapters of Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo's seemingly unrelated fear of weakness generates his unequivocal hatred toward the unfortunate recipients. Okonkwo has “a fear of failure and weakness” (13), exemplified by his father who “was in fact a coward and could not stand the sight of blood” (6). This sufficiently explains Okonkwo's deepest "fear of himself, lest he become like his father" (13). Trying to find the opposite of weakness to differentiate himself from his father, Okonkwo decides to "hate everything his father Unoka had loved." One of these things was meekness and another was idleness” (13). Therefore, Okonkwo's hatred of various interpretations of weakness, failure, and anyone who embodies them speaks to his underlying fear of "being like his father" (13). Although not as elusive, this relationship between fe...