Tragic hero

  In Chinua Achebe's novel "Things fall apart", it is made evident who the story is based around. Okonkwo a man with respect from his village is a very senseless and fearless leader who is made all the more arrogant after beating the great CAT. However, in an ironic turn of events, his arrogance lead him to his banishment as well as also leading a shameless warrior to a shameful death (hanging himself).
The death in which he kills himself is considered a tragic story, however, the audience doesn't feel sympathetic of his death. Okonkwo is known as a "tragic hero", a tragic hero is an archetype that makes a poor judgment leading to his/her own demise. In this case, it is Okonkwo with his mistreat of women which compromised a religious day, this leads to him accidently killing a boy which lead the citizens of the village to banish him. He then comes back to his home and finds that white colored people have taken over, which leads to his shameful death.
Chinua Achebe uses a tragic hero archetype in representing Okonkwo is because following Okonkwo a fearless leader it is hard to sympathize with him however when leading to his tragic death there is sympathy but it is quickly followed up by "well it's his own fault", and the author wants to put that thought in the readers mind.